[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/9] libxl: disks: allow specification of "backendtype=phy|tap|qdisk"
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 15:24 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/9] libxl: disks: allow > specification of "backendtype=phy|tap|qdisk""): > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 18:55 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > +Not all backend drivers support all combinations of other options. > > > +For example, "phy" does not support formats other than "raw". > > > +Normally this option should not be specified, in which case libxl will > > > +automatically determine the most suitable backend. > > > > The deprecated prefixes ("tapdisk:", "phy:" etc) are explicitly not > > aliases for any of these, right? > > Indeed. > > > Not really related to this patch but it occurs to me that there probably > > ought to be backend types for the non-Linux dom0, e.g. *BSD backendd. > > Currently there isn't any support for those in libxl. Oh, I bet it's triggered by the same xenbus paths as blkback, i.e. it looks like a DEVICE_VBD to libxl. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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