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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Subject: Re: exception looking up device number for hda
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:19:29 -0700
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To: Xiaofeng Ling <xiaofeng.ling@intel.com>
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Xiaofeng Ling wrote:
> I've already made a patch when I doing para-driver debugging.
> see the attach patch.
> Does it fit the requirement?
> It will skip setupping up the loop device for ioemu image files,
> but by xm vbd-list, it can still see the file bind to hda.
> so  this command is still useful.

> -disk = [ 'file:/var/images/min-el3-i386.img,hda,w' ]
> +disk = [ 'ioemu:/var/images/min-el3-i386.img,hda,w' ]

The ioemu: prefix should be on the second element i.e:

+disk = [ 'file:/var/images/min-el3-i386.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]

and it should allow:

+disk = [ 'phy:hdb,ioemu:hda,w' ]

	-Arun