From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= Subject: Re: Any plan to support disk driver domain? Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:54:43 +0200 Message-ID: <515D6A03.1080801@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "G.R." Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 04/04/13 12:26, G.R. wrote: > Hi developers, > I'm currently running a PVHVM freeNAS domU to serve storage (SATA > controller passed-through) to all other domUs. However, some issues are > observed in the network / NFS performance for the NAS domU. > I noticed that there is a blkback driver in freebsd which is documented > as capable to export disk to other domains, which looks very promising. > However, the wiki says that disk driver domain is not supported (at > least for now). > > I wonder if there is any plan to support such disk driver domain? It'll > be a great feature for my use case. > > Thanks, > Timothy Hello, Driver domain support is indeed planed for libxl/xl, most kernels out there already have driver domain capabilities, it's just a matter of creating a protocol to communicate between Dom0 and the Driver domain, so the driver domain knows which devices it has to attach and to which guest.