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From: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Kamala Narasimhan <Kamala.Narasimhan@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:31:08 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1101272227150.31326@vega3.dur.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101271506410.7277@kaball-desktop>

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

> - phy:/path/to/device
> blkback is used as block backend, if blkback is missing from your dom0
> kernel, this configuration will fail.
> A block device must be specified because blkback cannot handle files by
> itself.
> The format must be raw.

If you want backwards compatibility then phy:devname works in xm as well 
as phy:/dev/devname . Many of the example files in /etc/xen still use the 
earlier format.

 	Michael Young

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 19:46 [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-27 15:17 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-27 15:22   ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-27 15:35     ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-27 16:23       ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-27 17:46         ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-27 17:59           ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-27 20:14             ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-28  9:27               ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-28 12:51                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-27 17:53         ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-27 17:43       ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-27 16:08   ` Philipp Hahn
2011-01-27 17:31   ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-27 17:54     ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-27 18:35       ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-27 18:46         ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-27 18:46         ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28  1:56       ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-28 10:06         ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-28 10:25           ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-28 12:02             ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-28 13:19           ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 13:21             ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-28 13:28               ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 13:29                 ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-28 15:11                 ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-28 14:43           ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-28 17:22           ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-28 19:10           ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-31 17:28             ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 13:11         ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 17:55         ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-27 22:15   ` Kamala Narasimhan
2011-01-28 12:57     ` xl: drdb support Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 16:48       ` Shriram Rajagopalan
2011-01-28 17:58       ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-28 18:03         ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 18:06           ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-28 18:12             ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 18:16               ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-28 21:41           ` James Harper
2011-01-29  1:12       ` James Harper
2011-01-29 12:53         ` RE: drdb support / xend locking for live migration Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-01-28 16:03     ` [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation Jim Fehlig
2011-01-28 16:30       ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 16:52         ` Jim Fehlig
2011-01-28 17:51           ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-01-28 17:53       ` Ian Jackson
2011-01-27 22:31   ` M A Young [this message]

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