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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: PV drivers on HVM using Xen 4.1.1
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:16:54 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:01:13PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> Stefano,
> 
> --On 27 October 2011 15:51:54 +0100 Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> >>So, should we be using tap:aio:/dev/... for a block device for
> >>speed?
> >
> >You should use phy:/dev/whatever.
> >At this point I suggest you setup loop devices for testing to be
> >coherent.

Or you can use Logical Volumes and dump your .img files in them and do:

dd if=/mnt/ViP_customer.img of=/dev/vg_guest/VIP_customer bs=1MB

and in your configuration file:
disk = ['phy:/dev/vg_guest/VIP_customer,xvda,w']