Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 9/9] qemu: monitor: Add APIs for 'blockdev-create'

The 'blockdev-create' starts a job which creates a storage volume using the given protocol or formats an existing (added) volume with one of the supported storage formats. This patch adds the monitor interaction bits. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 4 ++++ src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c index 9358d0b1e2..90cd5ea9bd 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c @@ -4418,6 +4418,36 @@ qemuMonitorSetWatchdogAction(qemuMonitorPtr mon, } +/** + * qemuMonitorBlockdevCreate: + * @mon: monitor object + * @jobname: name of the job + * @props: JSON object describing the blockdev to add + * + * Instructs qemu to create/format a new stroage or format layer. Note that + * the job does not add the created/formatted image into qemu and + * qemuMonitorBlockdevAdd needs to be called separately with corresponding + * arguments. Note that the argumetns for creating and adding are different.

+ * + * Note that @props is always consumed by this function and should not be + * accessed after calling this function. + */