On 06/20/2011 08:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 06/14/2011 04:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote:
- Starting Qemu with a backing file
For this we could tell qemu that a file named "xyz" is available via fd
n, via an extension of the getfd command.
For example
(qemu) getfd path="/images/my-image.img"
(qemu) getfd path="/images/template.img"
(qemu) drive-add path="/images/my-image.img"
The open() for my-image.img first looks up the name in the getfd
database, and finds it, so it returns the fd from there instead of
opening. It then opens the backing file ("template.img") and looks it up
again, and finds the second fd from the session.
The way I've been thinking about this is:
-blockdev id=hd0-back,file=fd:4,format=raw \
-blockdev file=fd:3,format=qcow2,backing=hd0-back
While your proposal is clever, it makes me a little nervous about
subtle security ramifications.