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From: victor romanchuk <rom@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver?
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:42:55
Message-Id: 4F084B8B.4080104@persimplex.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver? by Konstantinos Agouros
1 Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 01/07/2012 03:51 PM:
2 > since xen got into the mainstream kernel the way to go is to use
3 > gentoo-sources for dom0 and the domUs. However the blktap modules are not
4 > there. Is there any way to get this to work?
5
6 blktap drivers were excluded from kernel mainline since 3.x, these two threads
7 from xen-users mailing list might put some light in that context:
8
9 http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-07/msg00637.html
10 http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-10/msg00065.html
11
12 the latest sys-kernel/xen-sources containing working blktap (not blktap2) is
13 2.6.38 (this is buggy from my point of view; i'm still sitting on 2.6.34-r5 for
14 production installations)
15
16 victor

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver? Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>