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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: missing block script support for qemu in libxl
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:25:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151118092531.GA20778@aepfle.de> (raw)

Why does libxl now allow script= with backend=tap|qdisk? See
tools/libxl/libxl_device.c:disk_try_backend.

Ideally the script should prepare the backend storage based on info from
target=. Then the script should report either the dentry to be used by
qemu back to libxl, or it should setup the "physical-device" entry to be
used by blkback.

Right now the target= info is passed to the script, but its also used as
->pdev_path for qemu. Obvisouly qemu cant possibly make sense of the
target= info, because its meant for the script=.

tools/libxl/check-xl-disk-parse has some script examples. I think right
now its not possible to boot an HVM guest from iscsi, for example.

Should the logic in libxl be changed to make scripts= more useful, and
let libxl read info for qemu which has to be provided by the script?

Olaf

             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-18  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-18  9:25 Olaf Hering [this message]
2015-11-18  9:35 ` missing block script support for qemu in libxl George Dunlap
2015-11-18  9:38   ` George Dunlap
2015-11-18  9:45   ` Olaf Hering
2015-11-19 11:30     ` Paul Durrant

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