RE: [Xen-devel] dynamically allocating loopback devices?

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > That allows me to bypass the losetup, but what about device
> allocation? - the examples I see all look like
> disk = [ 'file:/u/kmacy/mdroot-5.3,loop7,w' ]

file: does do the loop device allocation. The second parameter is the
device you want the vbd to appear in the guest as, i.e. usually sda1 or
hda1.

Ian


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