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Eric Blake 3dcf56e625 qemu-nbd: Permit --shared=0 for unlimited clients
This gives us better feature parity with QMP nbd-server-start, where
max-connections defaults to 0 for unlimited.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210209152759.209074-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-02-12 07:42:08 -06:00
Eric Blake dbc7b01492 nbd: Add 'qemu-nbd -A' to expose allocation depth
Allow the server to expose an additional metacontext to be requested
by savvy clients.  qemu-nbd adds a new option -A to expose the
qemu:allocation-depth metacontext through NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS; this
can also be set via QMP when using block-export-add.

qemu as client is hacked into viewing the key aspects of this new
context by abusing the already-experimental x-dirty-bitmap option to
collapse all depths greater than 2, which results in a tri-state value
visible in the output of 'qemu-img map --output=json' (yes, that means
x-dirty-bitmap is now a bit of a misnomer, but I didn't feel like
renaming it as it would introduce a needless break of back-compat,
even though we make no compat guarantees with x- members):

unallocated (depth 0) => "zero":false, "data":true
local (depth 1)       => "zero":false, "data":false
backing (depth 2+)    => "zero":true,  "data":true

libnbd as client is probably a nicer way to get at the information
without having to decipher such hacks in qemu as client. ;)

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201027050556.269064-11-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
2020-10-30 15:22:00 -05:00
Peter Maydell a08b4a9fe6 docs: Move tools documentation to tools manual
Move the following tools documentation files to the new tools manual:

 docs/interop/qemu-img.rst
 docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
 docs/interop/virtfs-proxy-helper.rst
 docs/interop/qemu-trace-stap.rst
 docs/interop/virtiofsd.rst

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200217155415.30949-4-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2020-02-25 10:48:06 +00:00
Renamed from docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst (Browse further)