Re: [Xen-devel] pvops xen_blkfront does not enforce device names

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.04.16 at 08:45, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> Why does xen_blkfront not enforce kernel device names from domU.cfg?
>> In my PV domU.cfg I still have something like this:
>> disk=[ 'file:/path,hda,w' ]
>> 
>> With pvops and xen_blkfront I get xvda.
>> With xenlinux and xenblk I get hda.
> 
> It has no business subverting the hda device names which
> are specifically for legacy devices.

That's one view. The other is that people moving from XenoLinux to
pv-ops are in trouble without it. How did you (or Citrix, if anyone of
them looks) deal with this when doing the transition?

> [We got smacked down at some point for having done this]

In which way?

Jan


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