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Implement a compressed save image format for qemu. While ideally
we would have the choice between compressed/non-compressed
available to the libvirt API, unfortunately there is no "flags"
parameter to the virDomainSave() API. Therefore, implement this
as a qemu.conf option. gzip, bzip2, and lzma are implemented, and
it should be very easy to implement additional compression
methods.
One open question is if/how we should detect the compression
binaries. One way to do it is to do compile-time setting of the
paths (via configure.in), but that doesn't seem like a great thing
to do. My preferred solution is not to detect at all;
when we go to run the commands that need them, if they
aren't available, or aren't available in one of the standard paths,
then we'll fail. That's also the solution implemented in this patch.
In the future, we'll have a more robust (managed) save/restore API,
at which time we can expose this functionality properly in the API.
V2: get rid of redundant dd command and just use >> to append data.
V3: Add back the missing pieces for the enum and bumping the save version.
V4: Make the compressed field in the save_header an int.
Implement LZMA compression.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>