[pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES v3 pve-storage/qemu-server/pve-qemu] add external qcow2 snapshot support

[DERUMIER, Alexandre]

> Hmm, sounds like it might a bug, I can look into it. If really
> required
> to make it work, we can still set fixed node-names on the
> commandline,
> but also query them before usage to be sure we have the correct, i.e.
> currently inserted node.

>>AFAICT, this is because the node name is not set in the original
>>options
>>for the block driver state and then it wrongly detects an attempt to
>>change the node name (even if specifying the correct auto-generated
>>one
>>during reopen). However, it is rather ugly to try and use a -drive
>>together with blockdev-reopen in any case, blockdev-reopen is really
>>written with -blockdev in mind and -blockdev necessarily requires
>>setting node-name up front.

you are too fast ^_^

>>I don't think it's even worth fixing that bug. We should use
>>blockdev-reopen only after switching to -blockdev, it's much nicer
>>like
>>that :)
>>
>>I'd still be in favor of querying the node-name of drives with
>>query-block before doing QMP operations though. Like that, we can
>>warn/error if it doesn't match what we expect for example, to catch
>>unexpected situations.

ok, so the question is : how to query to node-noname of different disk
(+snapshot chain).

Fabian is against the use of the path.

So, I'm a little bit out of idea ^_^