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We're running into various problems because the "raw" file access, which is used internally by the various image formats is entangled with the "raw" image format, which maps the VM view 1:1 to a file system. This patch renames the raw file backends to the file protocol which is treated like other protocols (e.g. nbd and http) and adds a new "raw" image format which is just a wrapper around calls to the underlying protocol. The patch is surprisingly simple, besides changing the probing logical in block.c to only look for image formats when using bdrv_open and renaming of the old raw protocols to file there's almost nothing in there. For creating images, a new bdrv_create_file is introduced which guesses the protocol to use. This allows using qemu-img create -f raw (or just using the default) for both files and host devices. Converting the other format drivers to use this function to create their images is left for later patches. The only issues still open are in the handling of the host devices. Firstly in current qemu we can specifiy the host* format names on various command line acceping images, but the new code can't do that without adding some translation. Second the layering breaks the no_zero_init flag in the BlockDriver used by qemu-img. I'm not happy how this is done per-driver instead of per-state so I'll prepare a separate patch to clean this up. There's some more cleanup opportunity after this patch, e.g. using separate lists and registration functions for image formats vs protocols and maybe even host drivers, but this can be done at a later stage. Also there's a check for protocol in bdrv_open for the BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT case that I don't quite understand, but which I fear won't work as expected - possibly even before this patch. Note that this patch requires various recent block patches from Kevin and me, which should all be in his block queue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> |
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| cloop.c | ||
| cow.c | ||
| curl.c | ||
| dmg.c | ||
| nbd.c | ||
| parallels.c | ||
| qcow2-cluster.c | ||
| qcow2-refcount.c | ||
| qcow2-snapshot.c | ||
| qcow2.c | ||
| qcow2.h | ||
| qcow.c | ||
| raw-posix-aio.h | ||
| raw-posix.c | ||
| raw-win32.c | ||
| raw.c | ||
| vdi.c | ||
| vmdk.c | ||
| vpc.c | ||
| vvfat.c | ||