Re: [Xen-users] tap instead of file

["Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Randy McAnally <rsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm running Xen 3.1.4 on CentOS 5 and am interested in switching the
> following disk to tap mode:
>
> disk = [ 'file:/vm/dns.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]
>
> However, everything I've tried fails (DomU won't boot).  Basically I'm
> trying to avoid Dom0 caching the reads and writes and get a little better
> performance.
>
> What is the correct syntax to enable tap mode?
>

You should be able to do
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/vm/dns.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]

Cheers,
Todd

> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Randy
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