X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=contrib%2Fvisualize-alignment%2FREADME;h=6c30f94669a6e2d038d2906d348a5346d0f9deb6;hb=cb8403c4282ddfbcc204920c72a104eb7f69e373;hp=0009dcf84e8edef1690aef3da96ad1f767f7b2f5;hpb=241c34fb7acff24713331f015429eb52055553a6;p=libguestfs.git diff --git a/contrib/visualize-alignment/README b/contrib/visualize-alignment/README index 0009dcf..6c30f94 100644 --- a/contrib/visualize-alignment/README +++ b/contrib/visualize-alignment/README @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ such as a single write, or groups of operations. You can examine the traces by hand (as text files) or turn them into graphical visualizations. +IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not upstream (in qemu) nor integrated into +libguestfs. We should probably be using the 'blktrace' command +instead, or if that is not suitable, get a more reliable and useful +trace mechanism added to qemu (the current patch is not suitable for +upstreaming). + The *.qtr files are qemu trace files, produced using the unofficial qemu patch in the current directory.