On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
Modern way is using blockdev-add + blockdev-backup, which provides a lot more control on how target is opened.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 ++++++ docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst | 47 +++++++++++++++++--------- qapi/block-core.json | 5 ++- 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 25b7ec8d92..4a4910143f 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -234,6 +234,17 @@ single ``bitmap``, the new ``block-export-add`` uses a list of ``bitmaps``. Member ``values`` in return value elements with meta-type ``enum`` is deprecated. Use ``members`` instead.
+``drive-backup`` (since 6.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Correct here,...
+++ b/docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst
QMP invocation for ``drive-backup`` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Note that ``drive-backup`` command is deprecated since QEMU 6.1 and +will be removed in future.
...but stale here (this patch has been around for a while). But even though we're in soft freeze, I lean toward this going in rather than wait yet another release to do the deprecation. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org