Re: [Xen-devel] pvops xen_blkfront does not enforce device names

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:27:35PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > Why does xen_blkfront not enforce kernel device names from domU.cfg?
> > > In my PV domU.cfg I still have something like this:
> > > disk=[ 'file:/path,hda,w' ]
> > > 
> > > With pvops and xen_blkfront I get xvda.
> > > With xenlinux and xenblk I get hda.
> > 
> > It has no business subverting the hda device names which
> > are specifically for legacy devices.
> 
> Old IDE drives are not SCSI either, but now they appear as 'sd' since a
> while.
> 
> 'hd' or 'sd' or 'mmc' or 'xvd' are just names. They do not represent
> hardware as such. Otherwise the interface into the blocklayer to request
> major/minor/name would be like 'hey, I'm the IDE/SCSI/MMC/whatever
> driver, give me something'.
> 
> Anyway, since this is now set in stone, any VM out there which still is
> configured to use /dev/hd* has to be adjusted to /dev/xvd* upfront when
> going from xenlinux to pvops.

You may want to adjust it to use UUID. It really makes it easier in case
they also want to swap the disks arounds, etc.
> 
> Olaf

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel