[Xen-users] Debian 6 / Xen 4 / blktap2

[Jonathan Maron <jonathan.maron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all

I am updating a test system from Debian 5 and Xen 3.2 to Debian 6 and 
Xen 4.
After dist-upgrading, I did:

aptitude -P install xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386 linux-image-xen-686

And then fixed Grub2 to boot the xen kernel.

cat /etc/debian_version return 6, uname -a returns:

Linux xen-test 2.6.32-5-xen-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 07:52:18 UTC 2011 i686 
GNU/Linux
So far so good.

I previously used "tap:aio" to link in the hard disks of the domUs:

disk = [
    'tap:aio:/var/xen/domains/myhost/swap.img,sda1,w',
    'tap:aio:/var/xen/domains/myhost/disk.img,sda2,w'
]

After some research, I see that the successor "blktap2" is not available 
as a Debian package (see http://j.mp/dK59hn).
What is the recommended way of linking in hard disk images in Debian 6?

I am aware you can use "file:", but this has not been recommended since 
Debian 4.
Alternatively, are there any unofficial repositories with packaged 
"blktap2"?
Will "blktap2" return to Debian at some point, hence waiting would be 
the best solution?
Or does anyone have any other solutions?

TIA

Jonathan Maron

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