* Re: [PATCH v3] kvm tools: Make raw block device work
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@ 2012-04-15 16:01 ` Pekka Enberg
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From: Pekka Enberg @ 2012-04-15 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Asias He; +Cc: Sasha Levin, Cyrill Gorcunov, Ingo Molnar, kvm
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, 'Asias He wrote:
> From: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
>
> Previously, we use mmaped host root partition as guest's root
> filesystem. As virtio-9p based root filesystem is supported,
> mmaped host root partition approach is not used anymore.
>
> It is useful to use raw block device as guest's disk backend for some
> user. e.g. bypass host's fs layer.
>
> This patch makes raw block device work as disk image, user can do
> read/write on raw block device, by using DISK_IMAGE_REGULAR instead of
> DISK_IMAGE_MMAP for block device
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add fclose.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Check whether the block device is mounted before use it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks!
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