Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libxl: switch NetBSD image file handling to Qemu

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:20:51PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> This forces libxl to use Qemu when a raw image file is used as a disk
> backend. NetBSD currently only supports qemu-traditional, so
> device_model_version="qemu-xen-traditional" has to be added to the
> config file when using image files.

Why ? This impose a trip to userland, which is expensive.
xenbackendd should still call the backend script, right ?
Why not let it do its job and map the file to a vnd(4) ?

I don't support this change.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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