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From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dynamically allocating loopback devices?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:25:48 -0800
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> That's because it used to stat the device node in dom0 so that it would know
> what major / minor to tell the domain to use.  Xend has since been patched to
> not require this, I'm not sure what trees it was checked into, though
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

Ahh - makes sense. It is, however, a rather linux-centric approach.

     -Kip


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