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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-10-18 12:44:08 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-10-18 12:44:08 +0100
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contrib: Note about what needs to be done for visualization.
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@@ -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.