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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: How ARM Xen process the harddisk requests from DomU
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:39:23 +0100
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On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 12:06 +0800, Josh Zhao wrote:

> I am wondering how arm xen process the harddisk requests from DomU, is
> there a daemon in dom0 to do this work?

Xen on ARM supports only PV devices, so the PV disk backend will deal
with it. I'm not sure anyone has tried qdisk on ARM, although it should
work fine, but I expect most people are currently using the in-kernel
blkback driver in their driver domain.

Ian.