Re: RFC: blktap3

[Goncalo Gomes <Goncalo.Gomes@EU.CITRIX.COM>]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012, 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.

Welcome! precisely, xenio (aka blktap3) was developed by Daniel 
Stodden and recently continued/improved by Santosh Jodh :-)

As I have a slight interest in this area, I was wondering what are the 
main improvements over blktap2?

Goncalo

> 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
> 


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