[Pkg-xen-devel] Looking for sponsorship for xnbd

[Michael Tokarev]

05.04.2011 23:32, Arno Töll wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm sorry for this kind of mass mailing, but I try to find a sonsor for
> my xnbd package. I chose you, because all of you are somehow involved
> into virtualization in Xen/Qemu/KVM. This is, where my package can be
> used best (but is not limited to). Indeed I am about to use it in my Xen
> environment in future as well.
> 
> * Package name    : xnbd
>   Version         : 0.0.3+hg20110222-1
> * Upstream Author : Takahiro Hirofuchi <t.hirofuchi at aist.go.jp>
> * URL             : https://bitbucket.org/hirofuchi/xnbd/wiki/Home

Not to object against your RFS, but JFYI.  There's an ongoing effort
to provide "better" qemu-nbd implementation (and its usage in qemu
itself), done by Nick Thomas.  The goal is to allow asyncronous
processing (aio) which is built into the protocol but isn't provided
in most implementations.  And since qemu has quite powerful block
device model already it supports various fun stuff like copy on
write out of the box.

JFYI.

/mjt