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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] support more qdisk types



On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:51:27AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:35 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > Ok. So in your opinion, even if any new disk config is encoded in 
> > > 'target=',
> > > libxlu should split that up into (new) members of libxl_device_disk, not 
> > > just
> > > plop it into libxl_device_disk.pdev_path?
> > > 
> > 
> > No, not necessarily. I didn't look closely in the code yesterday when
> > replying, sorry.
> > 
> > If  target= has always been shoveled into pdev_path, using that would be
> > fine. We already have mechanism to parse target= outside of libxl in
> > hotplug script.
> > 
> > Are you aware of all those hotplug scripts living under tools/hotplug ?
> > Does using hotplug script sound plausible to you?
> > 
> > Currently hotplug script for QEMU is broken and needs fixing though, but
> > I'm sure we can figure it out.
> 
> How do hotplug scripts factor into this?
> 

If supporting all such block devices  requires presenting a block device
to QEMU? If QEMU directly handles them then hotplug script is not in the
picture.

Wei.

> Ian.

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