From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Question on "xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD"
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:50:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1D6A48.1020801@canonical.com> (raw)
This is /me trying to understand the background of
commit c80a420995e721099906607b07c09a24543b31d9
Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Thu Dec 2 17:55:00 2010 +0000
xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD
My guess would be that it has its reason from running HVM guests. The issue I in
some way hear in complaints is, that running as PVM guest (at least) people seem
to have used for example "sda1" in the instance configuration and then relied on
the device being called that way within the instance. Now it is suddenly called
"xvde1".
This is maybe a broken assumption in the first place, and not that hard to cope
with (its just surprising and maybe breaks some automation). I mainly want to
understand the reasoning, so I can explain it where I get asked.
Thanks,
Stefan
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-13 9:50 Stefan Bader [this message]
2011-07-13 10:47 ` Question on "xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD" Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-13 10:54 ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-13 12:14 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-13 13:20 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-13 13:45 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-13 15:34 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-13 16:19 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-13 17:03 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-13 17:25 ` John Haxby
2011-07-14 13:26 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-14 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen-blkfront: Drop name and minor adjustments for emulated scsi devices Stefan Bader
2011-07-14 17:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-14 13:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen-blkfront: Fix one off warning about name clash Stefan Bader
2011-07-14 17:33 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-14 13:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen-blkfront: Fix minor offset calculation for emulated IDE disks Stefan Bader
2011-07-14 17:34 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-15 6:23 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-15 10:20 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-15 10:41 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-19 13:22 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-19 16:22 ` Problem with Xen 4.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 ( Oneiric Ocelot) (HVM DomUs crash) Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-19 17:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-19 17:57 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-19 17:22 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-19 18:01 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-19 19:01 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-20 8:19 ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-20 8:24 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-20 10:45 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-20 12:07 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-20 12:11 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-20 12:44 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-20 15:03 ` Keir Fraser
2011-07-20 15:57 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-20 15:59 ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-23 17:45 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-28 17:58 ` Attempt to backport changeset-23088, changeset-23089 to Xen 4.1.1 Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-28 19:04 ` Keir Fraser
2011-07-28 19:41 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-28 19:53 ` Keir Fraser
2011-07-28 21:50 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-28 22:12 ` Keir Fraser
2011-07-28 22:02 ` Re: Attempt to backport changeset-23088, changeset-23089 to Xen 4.1.1- Notice of Ian Campbell Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-29 7:08 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-29 9:30 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-29 14:41 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-21 8:01 ` problem with xentrace_format in Xen 4.0.1 Zhiyuan Shao
2011-07-19 19:44 ` Re: Problem with Xen 4.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 ( Oneiric Ocelot) (HVM DomUs crash) Boris Derzhavets
2011-07-14 14:14 ` Re: Question on "xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD" Ian Campbell
2011-07-14 15:01 ` Stefan Bader
2011-07-14 14:48 ` Ian Jackson
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