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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: "G.R." <firemeteor@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Any plan to support disk driver domain?
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:16:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A483E5.9010302@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKhsbWYXUTzEJ0=6Vx0Hq9V6rgbrr-2m1HchU06oGzcWFr6xOA@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/04/13 12:26, G.R. wrote:
> Hi developers,
> I'm currently running a PVHVM freeNAS domU to serve storage (SATA
> controller passed-through) to all other domUs. However, some issues are
> observed in the network / NFS performance for the NAS domU.
> I noticed that there is a blkback driver in freebsd which is documented
> as capable to export disk to other domains, which looks very promising.
> However, the wiki says that disk driver domain is not supported (at
> least for now).
> 
> I wonder if there is any plan to support such disk driver domain? It'll
> be a great feature for my use case.

I've added a tutorial that explains how to use storage driver domains
with Xen 4.3, it contains a FreeBSD section that explains how to use ZFS
ZVOLS as disk backends for other domains, see:

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Storage_driver_domains

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-28 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-04 10:26 Any plan to support disk driver domain? G.R.
2013-04-04 11:54 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-04-04 12:08   ` G.R.
2013-04-04 14:23 ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-04-04 15:48   ` G.R.
2013-05-28 10:16 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2013-06-21  3:26   ` G.R.
2013-06-21 18:05     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-22  7:03     ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-06-22 12:23       ` G.R.
2013-07-24 16:17       ` G.R.
2013-07-25  8:31         ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-25 15:35           ` G.R.
2013-08-07 10:32             ` G.R.
2013-07-31 15:36           ` George Dunlap

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