From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Timo Benk <timo.benk@gmx.de>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Re: 3.0.3rc3 qcow image created with qemu-img not usable?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:59:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452E4A39.9080807@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452E4054.1090306@gmx.de>
Timo Benk wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> You cannot attach block devices to Domain-0. Furthermore, you cannot
>> attach non-raw file-based block devices to paravirtual domains.
>>
> I can and Xen can do so too :-)
>
Sorry, I forgot about blktap...
blktap requires a certain cluster size for qcow images IIRC. That's
probably why qemu-img doesn't work.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> I just followed the description in [1].
>
> And the point is as i have explained: it works with qcow-create created
> images but not with qemu-img created images.
>
> I do not know if that is by design or a bug.
>
> IMHO the Xen qcow format is compatible with qemu so it should work.
>
> [1]http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.3-testing.hg/tools/blktap/README
>
> Greetings,
> -timo
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-12 8:42 3.0.3rc3 qcow image created with qemu-img not usable? Timo Benk
2006-10-12 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-12 13:17 ` Timo Benk
2006-10-12 13:59 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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