Re: [Xen-devel] is a pure usermode backend possible?

[M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> > Would it be possible to have a completely separate (from qemu) userspace
> > backend
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-kvm.cgi/xenner/file/6b53579b4b15/blkbackd.c
>
> That became the xen blk backend in upstream qemu later.  Bitrotted a bit I 
> suspect, probably needs some patches to work with recent xen libraries.  Also 
> you might want to re-sync the block drivers with qemu.
I had a go at updating it on Fedora 14 when I broke it by updating xen 
to 4.x . I managed to get it to build but I couldn't get it to work. It 
sounds as if it might be worth trying again.
        Michael Young

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