Re: [Xen-devel] PV drivers on HVM using Xen 4.1.1

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 27 October 2011 14:54:48 +0100 Stefano Stabellini 
<stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   disk = [ "tap:aio:/tmp/centos-pvd.img,xvda,w" ]
> If this is an HVM guest,
It is

> you should use hda here because you want to
> make sure that an emulated IDE disk is created for you as well.
On Xen3.3 (and apparently on Xen 4) this happens anyway

> Also if /tmp/centos-pvd.img is a raw file, you might as well use file:
> rather than tap:aio.
There seems to be some doubt (see Ian's message) about whether this
changes the backend driver that is used. The final deployment application
is tap:aio with a block device, so that's why we're doing this.

--
Alex Bligh

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