From: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: "G.R." <firemeteor@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Any plan to support disk driver domain?
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:23:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <515D8CDA.3050302@tycho.nsa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKhsbWYXUTzEJ0=6Vx0Hq9V6rgbrr-2m1HchU06oGzcWFr6xOA@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/04/2013 06:26 AM, 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
>
>
I have submitted a patch adding libxl support for block backend domains - the
latest version is:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-03/msg01172.html
This has been tested with Linux in-kernel blkback; you just have to disable libxl's
own hotplug execution option and the default (Linux) hotplug scripts will connect
the device. I assume freebsd support can be done similarly, although perhaps it
requires a helper in the domU?
--
Daniel De Graaf
National Security Agency
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-04 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 10:26 Any plan to support disk driver domain? G.R.
2013-04-04 11:54 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-04-04 12:08 ` G.R.
2013-04-04 14:23 ` Daniel De Graaf [this message]
2013-04-04 15:48 ` G.R.
2013-05-28 10:16 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-06-21 3:26 ` G.R.
2013-06-21 18:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-22 7:03 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-06-22 12:23 ` G.R.
2013-07-24 16:17 ` G.R.
2013-07-25 8:31 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-25 15:35 ` G.R.
2013-08-07 10:32 ` G.R.
2013-07-31 15:36 ` George Dunlap
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