Re: [Xen-devel] missing block script support for qemu in libxl

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:35 AM, George Dunlap
<George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Why does libxl now allow script= with backend=tap|qdisk? See
>> tools/libxl/libxl_device.c:disk_try_backend.
>>
>> Ideally the script should prepare the backend storage based on info from
>> target=. Then the script should report either the dentry to be used by
>> qemu back to libxl, or it should setup the "physical-device" entry to be
>> used by blkback.
>>
>> Right now the target= info is passed to the script, but its also used as
>> ->pdev_path for qemu. Obvisouly qemu cant possibly make sense of the
>> target= info, because its meant for the script=.
>>
>> tools/libxl/check-xl-disk-parse has some script examples. I think right
>> now its not possible to boot an HVM guest from iscsi, for example.
>>
>> Should the logic in libxl be changed to make scripts= more useful, and
>> let libxl read info for qemu which has to be provided by the script?
>
> You mean, should the bug wherein HVM domains with emulated disks
> (which is all of them, by default) cannot use block scripts be fixed?
> Yes it should, and I'm working on it at the moment.

Or, if you're keen, I could hand it off to you. :-)  But since I'm
currently elbow-deep in the domain creation code it's probably easier
for me to just press on.

 -George

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