[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for NetBSD gntdev
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:42:52AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 29/11/12 19:56, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 06:31:45PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > >> The following series adds support for NetBSD gntdev to libxc, and > >> makes libxl use Qemu as a disk backend if an image file stored on a > >> remote filesystem is used. > > > > > > Can't you let the administrator decide this in the domU's config file ? > > Right now vnd on nfs has problems, but nothing unfixable. > > So one day you'll want to use the kernel driver for nfs too. > > But maybe other local filesystems will have the problem. > > So it's not for the tool do decide in the back of the admin. > > We can always add a configure check later when this is fixed to decide > if it is needed or not. I don't like the idea of having to set a > configuration option if you want to use disk images on NFS, because if > you don't know about this specific issue your whole Dom0 will crash > which is really not desired or user friendly. And I don't like the idea of software doing things in my back. And, beside this, I don't think local vs remote is the right criteria. There are remote filesystems which may play nice with vnd. There are local filesystems that may not play nice with vnd. -- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference -- _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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