Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver for xvdX disk

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/27/2015 10:26 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Boris Ostrovsky writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver for 
> xvdX disk"):
> > On 10/27/2015 09:19 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > If you want something that is accessible via the BIOS etc. in HVM
> > > guests, why not use vdev=hda rather than vdev=xvda ?
> > Yes, but since we've discovered that people do use xvda (and have been
> > doing this for long time --- our test framework has been running for
> > many years configured like that) --- do we want this to suddenly break?
> So you want us to change the spec to match the implementation ?
> (I haven't looked what happens with trad qemu.)
>
> If we change the spec, how would a user request an xvda with no
> emulated device ?
Can we allow specifying xvdX when we know that seabios is going to be used?

-boris

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