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2019 Mar 07
1
Support for NBD block status in nbdkit & qemu NBD client
...opying the source over the network, but the
command line for that is too complicated to show in a simple example).
VDDK has an API for querying allocated blocks, see
‘VixDiskLib_QueryAllocatedBlocks’ in
https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d101540/ef536a47-27cd-481a-90ef-76b38e75353c/vsphere-vddk-671-programming-guide.pdf
It's awkward to use but Martin (CC'd) has played with it and it does
seem to work.
The question is if we add Structured Replies + Block Status support to
nbdkit & implement it for the VDDK plugin, will ‘qemu-img conver...
2019 Oct 10
1
[PATCH NOT WORKING nbdkit] vddk: Restructure plugin to allow greater parallelism.
We had a query yesterday about the VDDK plugin and making it actually
obey the weird "Multithreading Considerations" rules in the VDDK
documentation
(https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d101540/ef536a47-27cd-481a-90ef-76b38e75353c/vsphere-vddk-671-programming-guide.pdf)
This patch is my attempt to implement this.
The idea is that the plugin starts a background thread and routes all
calls to certain VDDK functions through this thread, ensuring that the
"Multithreading Considerations" ar...