From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: document vbd numbering and naming
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:03:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210160346.GA1257@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297353275.21980.370.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On Thu, Feb 10, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 15:25 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > +Some Linux HVM guests with broken PV-on-HVM drivers do not cope
> > +properly if both hda and hdc are supplied, nor with both hda and xvda,
> > +because they directly map the bottom 8 bits of the xenstore integer
> > +directly to the Linux guest's device number and throw away the rest;
> > +they can crash due to minor number clashes. With these guests, the
> > +workaround is not to supply problematic combinations of devices.
Is "hda and hdc" correct in this paragraph?
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 15:25 [PATCH] docs: document vbd numbering and naming Ian Jackson
2011-02-10 15:54 ` Ian Campbell
2011-02-10 16:03 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-02-10 16:32 ` Ian Jackson
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