[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC Patch v4 3/9] pass correct file to qemu if we use blktap2
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If we use blktap2, the correct file should be blktap device > not the pdev_path. > > Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> If I'm reading this correctly, this is actually a fairly serious bug in libxl -- it means that when using backend=tap with HVM domains, qemu will actually *bypass entirely* the tapdisk process and access the underlying file directly. This should probably be backported, potentially as far back as 4.2. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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