Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] live snapshot wiki updated

[Jes Sorensen <Jes Sorensen redhat com>]

On 07/21/11 10:18, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 20.07.2011 19:47, schrieb Eric Blake:
>> > We really _do_ need a way to give qemu both an fd and the name of the 
>> > file that the fd is tied to.  On Linux, qemu could use /proc/self/fd to 
>> > reconstruct the name from fd, but that's not portable to other OS.  
> Is there any reason for qemu to know the file name if libvirt wants it
> to use only pre-opened fds anyway? I don't think it should even know the
> file name.
> 

In this case we shouldn't write backing file filenames into image files,
but some sort of libvirt token...... then again that will be a lot of
fun if you want to run things on the command line afterwards.

Jes