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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Virtual disk configuration, PV vs. emulated, backward compatibility etc
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:45:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C505E9E.2090109@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19536.21817.469833.377542@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

  On 07/28/2010 09:05 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> For Linux HVM guests using PV-on-HVM drivers, users are recommended to
> supply as few hd* devices as possible and use pure xvd* devices for
> the rest.  Modern PV-on-HVM drivers will map the hd* devices to
> /dev/xvdHDa etc.

I think we've decided to make blkfront register pv versions of emulated 
devices as hdX/sdX rather than using xvdHD.  We don't do this in pv domains.

     J

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-27 15:58 [RFC] Virtual disk configuration, PV vs. emulated, backward compatibility etc Ian Campbell
2010-07-27 16:50 ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-27 20:41 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-07-28  9:45   ` Ian Campbell
2010-07-28 12:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-07-28 16:05 ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-28 16:45   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2010-07-29 14:50     ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-29 15:07       ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-29 15:45         ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-29 15:59           ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-29 16:09             ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-29 16:14               ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-29 16:29                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-29 16:34                   ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-29 16:37                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-29 17:54                       ` Alan Cox

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