Re: [RFC PATCH 00/18] Add qemu-storage-daemon

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 21.11.2019 um 11:32 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:58:00PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 06.11.2019 um 15:37 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> > > On 17.10.19 15:01, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > The only thing I don’t like is the name, but that’s what <Tab> is for.
> > > :-)
> > 
> > I'm open for suggestions, but I thought 'qsd' was a bit too terse. :-)
> > 
> > (Actually, maybe we could even pick something that doesn't mention
> > storage or block? After all, it can do all kinds of QEMU backends in
> > theory. Not sure if there's any standalone use for them, but who
> > knows...)
> 
> It's likely that non-storage use cases will want to a daemon too.  Maybe
> just qemu-daemon?

Do you have specific use cases in mind? Most backends seem rather
useless without a device to attach them to. In older QEMU versions,
maybe you could put multiple network backends into a common vlan to
forward between them, but even that vlan concept doesn't exist any more.

Kevin

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature