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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:04:39 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio block device and sysfs
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To: Marc Haber <mh+qemu-devel@zugschlus.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your answer.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 05:17:03PM -0800, jvrao wrote:
>> Marc Haber wrote:
>>> I am looking to get in touch with somebody who knows more about the
>>> connection between host configuration, qemu, kvm, and the virtio block
>>> device driver guest side than I know.
>>>
>> Please check out this patch and follow the "mount_tag" ...it may be helpful
>> in explaining what you are looking for.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg26358.html
> 
> I am afraid that my knowledge of virtio interna is not sufficient to
> fully understand the patch. Does the guest see the mount tag, and if
> so, how does it see it?

Here is the patch for the guest kernel. 

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/83873/

- JV

> 
> Greetings
> Marc
>