From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: blktap, qdisk, xl cd-eject, and xencommons Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:32:56 +0100 Message-ID: <517F9DD8.6060608@eu.citrix.com> References: <517F96BE.1050705@eu.citrix.com> <517FB64102000078000D2067@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1367317306.3142.491.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1367317306.3142.491.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Wei Liu , Dave Scott , Stefano Stabellini , xen-devel , Jan Beulich , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 04/30/2013 11:21 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 11:17 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 30.04.13 at 12:02, George Dunlap wrote: >>> To address these issue for 4.3, I would like to propose: >>> >>> 1. Have libxl default to qdev for everything, except for things that it >>> needs blktap for (like vhd, IIRC) >> >> Everything? I.e. even raw disks? I thought those go through >> blkbk... > > Yes, and they should continue to do so IMHO. I think George really meant > "all structured disk types" or something. Yes, sorry -- I suppose what I really meant was to make the preference "blkback > qdev > blktap" -- i.e., if there's a choice between qdev and blktap, use qdev (whereas now it's the other way around, AIUI). -George