Re: [Xen-devel] xl block-attach

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:10 +0000, Kamala Narasimhan wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 19:56 +0000, Kamala Narasimhan wrote:
> >> The format in which disk information is required in xl block-attach is 
> >> different
> >> than the one expected in the disk configuration option (in the config 
> >> file).  It
> >> might make sense to keep the two consistent (excluding the domain/backend 
> >> dom id
> >> additional param block-attach would require).  Would it be alright if I 
> >> enforce
> >> it in our implementation (in main_blockattach in xl_cmdimpl.c) and modify
> >> block-attach help to reflect that change?
> > 
> > I think it makes sense to have them be the same (or as similar as
> > possible).
> > 
> > OOI, do the xm block-attach and xm config syntaxes differ from each too?
> > 
> 
> I think so.  The disk config syntax passed to xm through a config file is
> different than xm block-attach syntax.

What are the syntaxes and how are they different? I was under the
impression that (roughly speaking) the comma separated stuff in the
config file simply became the individual arguments to block-attach, is
that not the case?

Ian.



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