Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/8] qdisk local attach

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 May 2012, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 04.05.12 at 13:12, Stefano Stabellini 
> >>> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > this patch implements local_attach support for QDISK: that means that
> > you can use qcow2 as disk format for your PV guests disks and use
> > pygrub to retrieve the kernel and initrd in dom0.
> > 
> > The idea is that we start a QEMU instance at boot time to listen to
> > local_attach requests. When libxl_device_disk_local_attach is called on
> > a QDISK images, libxl sets up a backend/frontend pair in dom0 for the disk
> > so that blkfront in dom0 will create a new xvd device for it.
> > Then pygrub can be pointed at this device to retrieve kernel and
> > initrd.
> 
> So I pulled this into my local tree to be able to debug problems in
> our gntdev driver in a reasonably isolated way (i.e. not needing
> to fire up guests). While block-attach works fine, block-detach
> doesn't at all. This may be related to me using the deprecated
> file:/ form of specifying the source during attach, as all of the
> supposedly modern forms I tried weren't accepted by the parser.

Block-detach needs another small patch to libxl in order to work.
I'll add it as part of the next local_attach patch series.

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