Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

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

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:28:51PM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:29:45 +0200, Manuel Bouyer
> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> >>Correct. But we are missing the glue that will translate the block
> >>requests from domU: xbd => xbdback => XXX => qemu-dm, eg. the
> >>"blocktap" interface that offers block level I/O in userland.
> >
> >is it really working through xbdback ? I though qemu-dm did remplace
> >xbdback (it implements the backend itself).
> 
> Well, for PV domUs, xbdback is the only option, no?

but nothing prevents it from being implemented in userland (there's
already backed drivers in userland, xencons being the fist one).

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