From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <liuw@liuw.name>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] libxl: basic support for virtio disk
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:10:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106021708180.12963@kaball-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19943.46165.598420.601751@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] libxl: basic support for virtio disk"):
> > The limitation on the number of partitions is meaningless for virtio and
> > the limitation on the number of disks in arbitrary, as it is arbitrary
> > the current limitation on the number of scsi disks.
>
> So the code in libxl should accept any disk number that it can
> correctly format into an option to qemu, and allow qemu to deal with
> any resulting problems.
it is going to be probably INT_MAX then
> > Device names like xvda1, xvda2, etc, are currently supported only with
> > PV guests.
>
> Currently the partition number is ignored. Nonzero partitions should
> instead then be rejected.
>
good point
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-02 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 2:26 [PATCH] libxl: basic support for virtio disk Wei Liu
2011-05-27 12:26 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-05-27 13:23 ` Wei Liu
2011-05-27 15:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-05-30 3:10 ` Wei Liu
2011-05-31 11:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-06-01 11:09 ` Wei Liu
2011-06-01 13:59 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-01 14:51 ` Wei Liu
2011-06-02 15:04 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-06-02 16:03 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-02 16:10 ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]
2011-06-03 1:22 ` Wei Liu
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