Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] Raw notes from a small block layer/QAPI/something pre-christmas meeting

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:11:00AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Max Reitz <address@hidden> writes:

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Thanks, Max, for the detailed notes.

> > Image creation in qemu-system-* vs. qemu-img:
> >   In order to get proper introspection for qemu-img create, we need a
> >   QAPI schema.  If we have a QAPI schema, we might as well add
> >   blockdev-create to QMP.
> >   As long as we do not have a really-none (null, void, ...) machine type
> >   for qemu-system-*, launching such a process just for creating an image
> >   will bring quite a bit of overhead (e.g. with -M none -accel qtest).
> >   However, as for libvirt, this is not exactly a regression since
> >   libvirt currently cannot create images at all (apart from implicitly
> >   through drive-mirror etc.).  Further work on voidifying qemu-system-*
> >   will improve performance.
> 
> Another thought: do we want to give qemu-system-* the necessary
> privileges for creating images?  Two cases: running with and without a
> guest.

Related: Just curious -- was it an explicit design decision to not give
`qemu-system-*` permissions to create disk images?

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/kashyap