Re: [Xen-devel] libxl: missing disk device feature and bugs in error path

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Gianni Tedesco (3P) wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 13:15 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > In my guest config file I have this line:
> > 
> > disk = [ 'file:/hvm-guest/win7.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> > 
> > While 'xm create' parses this correctly,
> > 'xl create' fails in libxl.c line 1474 where it
> > calls device_disk_dev_number(). disk->virtpath
> > contains "ioemu".
> 
> I have a patch fixing the disk device parsing in the pipeline but it
> re-implements what was already in xl and doesn't handle this case. I am
> not sure how this flag ought to be handled so if Stefano or Ian have
> suggestions I can fold that in to my patch.

ioemu should be ignored: by default we provide an emulated disk if the
device name is hd* and we don't if the disk name is xvd*



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