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block: support known backing format for image create and open (Uri Lublin)
Added a backing_format field to BlockDriverState.Added bdrv_create2 and drv->bdrv_create2 to create an image witha known backing file format.Upon bdrv_open2 if backing format is known use it, instead of...
new scsi-generic abstraction, use SG_IO (Christoph Hellwig)
Okay, I started looking into how to handle scsi-generic I/O in thenew world order.
I think the best is to use the SG_IO ioctl instead of the read/writeinterface as that allows us to support scsi passthrough on disk/cdrom...
Add specialized block driver scsi generic API (Avi Kivity)
When a scsi device is backed by a scsi generic device instead of anordinary host block device, the block API is abused in a couple of annoyingways:
- nb_sectors is negative, and specifies a byte count instead of a sector count...
Revert r6405
This series is broken by design as it requires expensive IO operations atopen time causing very long delays when starting a virtual machine for thefirst time.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Revert r6407
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monitor: Rework API (Jan Kiszka)
Refactor the monitor API and prepare it for decoupled terminals:term_print functions are renamed to monitor_* and all monitor servicesgain a new parameter (mon) that will once refer to the monitor instancethe output is supposed to appear on. However, the argument remains...
monitor: Rework early disk password inquiry (Jan Kiszka)
Reading the passwords for encrypted hard disks during early startup isbroken (I guess for quiet a while now): - No monitor terminal is ready for input at this point - Forcing all mux'ed terminals into monitor mode can confuse other...
block: Introduce bdrv_get_encrypted_filename (Jan Kiszka)
Introduce bdrv_get_encrypted_filename service to allow more informativepassword prompting.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>...
block: Improve bdrv_iterate (Jan Kiszka)
Make bdrv_iterate more useful by passing the BlockDriverState to theiterator instead of the device name.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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qcow2 format: keep 'num_free_bytes', and show it upon 'info blockstats' (Uri Lublin)
'num_free_bytes' is the number of non-allocated bytes below highest-allocation.It's useful, together with the highest-allocation, to figure out howfragmented the image is, and how likely it will run out-of-space soon....
block-qcow2: export highest_allocated through BlockDriverInfo and get_info() (Uri Lublin)
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Vectored block device API (Avi Kivity)
Most devices that are capable of DMA are also capable of scatter-gather.With the memory mapping API, this means that the device code needs to beable to access discontiguous host memory regions.
For block devices, this translates to vectored I/O. This patch implements...
Use writeback caching by default with qcow2
qcow2 writes a cluster reference count on every cluster update. This causesperformance to crater when using anything but cache=writeback. This is mostnoticeable when using savevm. Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format...
Abstract out geometry detection code from IDE for reuse
Virtio will want to use the geometry detection code. It doesn't belongin ide.c anyway.
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Use an option rom instead of boot sector for -kernel
Generate an option rom instead of using a hijacked boot sector for kernelbooting. This just requires adding a small option ROM header and a few moreinstructions to the boot sector to take over the int19 vector and run our...
Expand cache= option and use write-through caching by default
This patch changes the cache= option to accept none, writeback, or writethoughto control the host page cache behavior. By default, writethrough caching isnow used which internally is implemented by using O_DSYNC to open the disk...
Add bdrv_flush_all()
This patch adds a bdrv_flush_all() function. It's necessary to ensure that allIO operations have been flushed to disk before completely a live migration.
N.B. we don't actually use this now. We really should flush the block drivers...
Refactor AIO to allow multiple AIO implementations
This patch refactors the AIO layer to allow multiple AIO implementations. It'sonly possible because of the recent signalfd() patch.
Right now, the AIO infrastructure is pretty specific to the block raw backend....
Use common objects for qemu-img and qemu-nbd
Right now, we sprinkle #if defined(QEMU_IMG) && defined(QEMU_NBD) all over thecode. It's ugly and causes us to have to build multiple object files forlinking against qemu and the tools.
This patch introduces a new file, qemu-tool.c which contains enough for...
Use signalfd() to work around signal/select race
This patch introduces signalfd() to work around the signal/select race inchecking for AIO completions. For platforms that don't support signalfd(), weemulate it with threads.
There was a long discussion about this approach. I don't believe there are any...
Allow QEMU to connect directly to an NBD server, by Laurent Vivier.
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New qemu-img convert -B option, by Marc Bevand.
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Revert fix for CVE-2008-0928. Will be fixed in a different way later.
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Fix CVE-2008-0928 - insufficient block device address range checking
Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block deviceread or write requests, which allows guest host users with rootprivileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine....
Real SCSI device passthrough (v4), by Laurent Vivier.
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Add "cache" parameter to "-drive" (Laurent Vivier).
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Fix bdrv_get_geometry to return uint64_t, by Andre Przywara.
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Collecting block device statistics, by Richard W.M. Jones.
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Break up vl.h.
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Split block API from vl.h.Remove QEMU_TOOL. Replace with QEMU_IMG and NEED_CPU_H.Avoid linking qemu-img against whole system emulatior.
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