Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] qemu: store guest visible disk size from qemu monitor block info

> >> a lot of exposure to that code. I do know there's still upstream qemu >> work taking place. We really should be very careful about adding >> anything to libvirt before the upstream work is done. In particular any >> x-* command support. >> > > AFAIK full pull backups as well as full/incremennal push backups are > ready to use in qemu. It is a pity that other commands that helps > organize pull backup process still has experimental status. One day > they drop this x- and I doubt that things will changed very radically > in comparison to what we have today. So if with the help of community > this patch will be ironed out libvirt will get pull backups instantly > after qemu be full ready. > FWIW: Happened to be scanning through qemu-devel today and came across the following topic (which interested me because it's related to other work I'm involved in): http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07721.html Anyway a few responses in there's this: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07748.html and finally this: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07773.html Since you do rely on blockdev-add - I'd just caution you to not rely on something specific... John