From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: RFC: blktap3 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:04:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20120809180433.GA14457@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <4B45B535F7F6BE4CB1C044ED5115CDDE0107F6C1D44C@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B45B535F7F6BE4CB1C044ED5115CDDE0107F6C1D44C@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Thanos Makatos Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:03:06PM +0100, Thanos Makatos wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to introduce blktap3: essentially blktap2 without the need of blkback. This has been developed by Santosh Jodh, and I'll maintain it. > So where is the source of this driver located? > In this patch, blktap2 binaries are suffixed with "2", so it's not yet possible to use it along with blktap3. > > An example configuration file I used is the following: > name = "debian bktap3 without pygrub" > memory = 256 > disk = ['backendtype=xenio,format=vhd,vdev=xvda,access=rw,target=/root/debian-blktap3.vhd'] > kernel = "vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64" > root = '/dev/xvda1' > ramdisk = "initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64" > cpu_weight=256 > vif=['bridge=xenbr0'] > > Before starting any blktap3 VM, the xenio daemon must be started. > > I've tested it on change set 472fc515a463 without pygrub. > > Any comments are welcome :) > > -- > Thanos Makatos > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel