Re: [Xen-users] blktap vs qemu backend

[Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've no idea whether blktap2 from github needs to hook into libxl, but I'd 
check to make sure whether the github blktap2 binaries do overwrite the Xen 
blktap2 ones.

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Thanos Makatos


> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kristoffer Harthing Egefelt
> Sent: 03 October 2012 23:10
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] blktap vs qemu backend
> 
> No, but I found this:
> 
> blktap-dkms v. 2.0.93
> https://github.com/mcclurmc/blktap-dkms
> 
> which compiles on kernel 3.5.3 and seems to work.
> 
> Next issue is to get blktap from
> 
> git://github.com/xen-org/blktap.git
> 
> to compile and work with libxl.
> 
> blktap compiles - but does not hook into xl, which makes xen use the
> "old"
> blktap.
> 
> Any ideas on how to merge the new blktap (tap-ctl specifically) into
> xen 4.2?
> 
> 
> 
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