Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:49:04PM +0200, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> 
> On Apr,Friday 1 2011, at 12:16 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> >>>> Wouldn't it be better to implement the functionality with rump?
> >>> 
> >>> Maybe, I don't know if rump would be the right way to do it.
> >>> What is the blktap2 driver supposed to do ?
> >> 
> >> It adds support for different virtual disk types such as qcow, qcow2,
> >> vhd, vmdk, etc.
> >> 
> >> pooka@ pointed me to pud(4) when I talked to him last time.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is the right way to do it; performance-wise.
> 
> If I understand it correctly this is done by other drivers already with 
> qemu-pv.

probably; that's why I don't understand we need device nodes backed by
user processes for this.

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