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Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Regarding guest-file-write
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Regarding guest-file-write |
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Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:34:10 -0600 |
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On 06/24/2014 07:10 AM, Puneet Bakshi wrote:
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
> 1. In that case, I hope it allow sending binary data (non-ASCII) also.
Yes, the reason guest-file-write takes base64 encoded data is PRECISELY
so that it can cope with binary data while still using only ascii
representation over the wire.
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> 2. If I encode my data in base-64 form, is there a limit on size of the
> data I can pass (or I can pass arbitrarily large amount of data).
At this point, it may be faster for you to read the qemu source code.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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