From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Hyper-V disk support V3 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:12:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20120418211235.55b9befc@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20120414170223.24f6ea31@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <1334575229-7493-1-git-send-email-apw@canonical.com> <20120416122634.7d1357e1@ultron> <20120416182927.GB3346@shadowen.org> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF92CE0B5@CH1PRD0310MB381.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:37588 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751065Ab2DRUJ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:09:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF92CE0B5@CH1PRD0310MB381.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mike Sterling > The notion of "pass through" in Hyper-V is a little different. IDE devices can be configured > under either one of the supported controllers and these devices can either be virtual disks > (VHDs) or physical disks. In either case these will be presented to the guest as IDE devices. So what ensures that by skipping it at the ATA device level we will always find it as a VHD ? Alan