RE: [Xen-devel] removing a block device from windows

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Citrix Windows PV drivers will initiate a ->closing->closed sequence if the 
user invokes a 'safe remove'; i.e. a device eject.

  Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Campbell
> Sent: 15 July 2011 09:03
> To: James Harper
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] removing a block device from windows
> 
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 02:24 +0100, James Harper wrote:
> > >From dom0 I can do xm block-detach to remove a device from a
> DomU,
> > >which
> > manages the state transition to closing/closed etc then removes
> the
> > device
> >
> > Can a DomU initiate the transition to closed too, or is that not
> > expected to work?
> 
> I reckon that ought to work, by switching the frontend to Closing,
> although I'm not aware of any existing frontends which actually do
> that (maybe it happens on kexec? e.g. pvgrub->kernel)
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
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