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On Jan 7, 2012 8:44 PM, "victor romanchuk" <rom@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 01/07/2012 03:51 PM: |
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> > since xen got into the mainstream kernel the way to go is to use |
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> > gentoo-sources for dom0 and the domUs. However the blktap modules are |
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not |
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> > there. Is there any way to get this to work? |
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> blktap drivers were excluded from kernel mainline since 3.x, these two |
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threads |
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> from xen-users mailing list might put some light in that context: |
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http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-07/msg00637.html |
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http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-10/msg00065.html |
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> the latest sys-kernel/xen-sources containing working blktap (not blktap2) |
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is |
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> 2.6.38 (this is buggy from my point of view; i'm still sitting on |
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2.6.34-r5 for |
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> production installations) |
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Can someone shed a light on the importance of blktap, i.e., why one would |
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want to use it when -- as someone explained in the first email thread you |
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gave -- blkfront+blkend is enough for paravirtualization? |
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Rgds, |
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