Re: [Xen-devel] Driver domains and hotplug scripts, redux

[Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Dave Scott writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Driver domains and hotplug scripts,
> redux"):
> > FYI XCP/xapi is a heavy user of blktap2 and we use it like this:
> >
> > 0. user calls VM.start
> > 1. xapi invokes one of its "storage managers" (plugin scripts, one
> per
> >    storage type) telling it to "attach" a disk.
> > 2. the storage manager zones-in the relevant LUN and runs "tap-ctl"
> >    commands to create a block device. This is returned to xapi.
> > 3. xapi creates the block backend directory in xenstore with
> >    "params=<block device>".
> 

Ian Jackson replied:
> Thanks for the info.  Right, this is a model we should continue to
> support in libxl.  All the "management" is done outside libxl, and
> libxl is simply provided with the block device.

That would be great :-)

> ATM libxl only supports taking an actual device name in /dev, and TBH
> I can't really see that changing because some parts of libxl might
> need to actually open it in dom0.
> 
> I guess though it wouldn't be hard for xapi to provide a name in
> /dev.  It must surely make one for its own purposes.

I'm pretty sure our block devices end up in /dev -- so I think that would work 
for us.

Thanks,
Dave


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