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2019 Mar 07
1
Support for NBD block status in nbdkit & qemu NBD client
...uld be. (In the real world version
of this we're actually copying 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...
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 th...