[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] blktap3 as a block device?
On 26/11/12 11:54, Thanos Makatos wrote: > > >> -----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. >From my point of view using blkfront on Dom0 should be used instead of nbd. nbd is Linux specific, on the other hand all Dom0s have a blkfront implementation. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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