[pve-devel] [RFC v2 storage 10/10] plugin api: bump api version and age

From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [RFC v2 storage 10/10] plugin api: bump api version and age
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:31:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250523133156.617227-11-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250523133156.617227-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com>

Introduce qemu_blockdev_options() plugin method.

In terms of the plugin API only, adding the qemu_blockdev_options()
method is a fully backwards-compatible change. When qemu-server will
switch to '-blockdev' however, plugins where the default implemenation
is not sufficient, will not be usable for virtual machines anymore.
Therefore, this is intended for the next major release, Proxmox VE 9.

Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---

New in v2.

 ApiChangeLog       | 13 +++++++++++++
 src/PVE/Storage.pm |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ApiChangeLog b/ApiChangeLog
index 987da54..062e75b 100644
--- a/ApiChangeLog
+++ b/ApiChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ without breaking anything unaware of it.)
 
 Future changes should be documented in here.
 
+## Version 12:
+
+* Introduce `qemu_blockdev_options()` plugin method
+
+  Proxmox VE will switch to the more modern QEMU command line option `-blockdev` replacing `-drive`.
+  With `-drive`, it was enough to specify a path, where special protocol paths like `iscsi://` were
+  also supported. With `-blockdev`, the data is more structured, a driver needs to be specified
+  alongside the path to an image and each driver supports driver-specific options. Most storage
+  plugins should be fine using driver `host_device` in case of a block device and `file` in case of
+  a file and no special options, see the default implemenation of the base plugin. Implement this
+  this method for Proxmox VE 9. For available drivers and driver-specific options, see:
+  https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/master/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html#object-QMP-block-core.BlockdevOptions
+
 ##  Version 11:
 
 * Allow declaring storage features via plugin data
diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage.pm b/src/PVE/Storage.pm
index 3b0f07e..39bb492 100755
--- a/src/PVE/Storage.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Storage.pm
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ use PVE::Storage::BTRFSPlugin;
 use PVE::Storage::ESXiPlugin;
 
 # Storage API version. Increment it on changes in storage API interface.
-use constant APIVER => 11;
+use constant APIVER => 12;
 # Age is the number of versions we're backward compatible with.
 # This is like having 'current=APIVER' and age='APIAGE' in libtool,
 # see https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Libtool-versioning.html
-use constant APIAGE => 2;
+use constant APIAGE => 3;
 
 our $KNOWN_EXPORT_FORMATS = ['raw+size', 'tar+size', 'qcow2+size', 'vmdk+size', 'zfs', 'btrfs'];
 
-- 
2.39.5



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