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From: Soubir Acharya <acharya@kubisys.com>
Subject: Re: XCP PV driver
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:55:53 -0500
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On 2/1/2011 9:49 AM, Paul Durrant wrote:
> I guess that succeeding the ops may affect the slew of WHQL tests that the storage driver is expected to pass.
> It'd be kind of nice to make it work 'properly' such that a disk image passed into multiple VMS could be shared via MSCS, and we could still pass WHQL. I'll stick it on the bottom of my 'have a look at this' list.

Good point. One option would be to return failure as default (so that we 
are OK with WHQL), and then turn the feature on via a registry setting 
or similar?

I can also research the WHQL requirement for disk arbitration.

Soubir