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Libvirt's backup code has two modes:
1) push - where qemu actively writes the difference since the checkpoint
into the output file
2) pull - where we instruct qemu to expose a frozen disk state along
with a bitmap of blocks which changed since the checkpoint
For push mode qemu needs the temporary bitmap we use where we calculate
the actual changes to be present on the block node backing the disk.
For pull mode where we expose the bitmap via NBD qemu actually wants the
bitmap to be present for the exported block node which is the scratch
file.
Until now we've calculated the bitmap twice and installed it both to the
scratch file and to the disk node, but we don't need to since we know
when it's needed.
Pass in the 'pull' flag and decide where to install the bitmap according
to it and also when to register the bitmap name with the blockjob.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
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Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
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https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
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