Re: [Xen-devel] kpartx for raisin hvm tests

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Géza Gémes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to run the raisin test suite, while pv tests pass the hvm tests
> fail. I've identified a number of problems, starting with two small disk size
> to formating the whole disk and then being unable to install grub to the boot
> sector. I've trace down these problems into the incorrect invocation of the
> _create_loop_device function in scripts/lopartsetup.
> 
> My question: Will it be acceptable if I would replace this part of the code
> with a kpartx call? Or introducing kpartx is a too big change in the list of
> dependencies?
 
I understand that kpartx makes things much easier, but before
introducing it as a dependency, I would like to understand this problem
a bit better.

Why is _create_loop_device invoked incorrectly? Is it index or offset
that is calculate incorrectly?

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