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To: Marc Haber <mh+qemu-devel@zugschlus.de>
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jvrao wrote:
> 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/

Sorry..here is another one that can be helpful to give you a complete picture.

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/83874/


> 
> - JV
> 
>> Greetings
>> Marc
>>
> 
> 
> 
>