It is used to do transactional movement of the bitmap (which is
possible in conjunction with merge command). Transactional bitmap
movement is needed in scenarios with external snapshot, when we don't
want to leave copy of the bitmap in the base image.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190708220502.12977-3-jsnow@redhat.com
[Edited "since" version to 4.2 --js]
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
The 'x' prefix was added because I was uncertain of the direction we'd
take for the libvirt API. With the general approach solidified, I feel
comfortable committing to this API for 4.0.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20181221093529.23855-5-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
New action is like clean action: do the whole thing in .prepare and
undo in .abort. This behavior for bitmap-changing actions is needed
because backup job actions use bitmap in .prepare.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
John Snow