From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:44:08 +0000 (+0100) Subject: contrib: Note about what needs to be done for visualization. X-Git-Tag: 1.5.22~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=361c513dc3e013d2d7e902e3b309a4c37cf6ee0f;ds=inline contrib: Note about what needs to be done for visualization. --- 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.