[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] blktap3 as a block device?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Campbell > Sent: 26 November 2012 10:45 > To: Darren Shepherd > Cc: Fajar A. Nugraha; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Thanos Makatos > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] blktap3 as a block device? > > On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 01:08 +0000, Darren Shepherd wrote: > > The more direct question is going forward with blktap3 is there going > > to be a way to see the blktap device as a block device in dom0? > > There will have to be, e.g. to support pygrub and similar uses. > > I'm not sure what form this will eventually take though (CCing Thanos, > blktap3 maintainer). Ideas which I've heard floating about are to have > tapdisk export an nbd server or supporting running a vbd device in dom0 > in a loopback type mode. Yes this is one of the possibilities; this functionality is already on blktap2.5 (where blktap3 is based on). Another idea could be to use both blkfront and tapdisk on dom0, haven't considered that thoroughly though. > > Ian. > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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