[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: document vbd numbering and naming
Olaf Hering writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: document vbd numbering and naming"): > On Thu, Feb 10, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 15:25 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > +Some Linux HVM guests with broken PV-on-HVM drivers do not cope > > > +properly if both hda and hdc are supplied, nor with both hda and xvda, > > > +because they directly map the bottom 8 bits of the xenstore integer > > > +directly to the Linux guest's device number and throw away the rest; > > > +they can crash due to minor number clashes. With these guests, the > > > +workaround is not to supply problematic combinations of devices. > > Is "hda and hdc" correct in this paragraph? In trad Linux hdc has identical minor number to hda but different major, so yes. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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