Re: [Xen-devel] RE: GPL Win PV driver issues

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:51:09PM -0500, Steve Ofsthun wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:36:59PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:21:41PM -0500, Steve Ofsthun wrote:
> 
> So today, the PV blkfront driver should be modified to claim resources
> for the IDE controller?  How do you share the IDE controller for CD-ROM use?

I would venture to suggest that any PV disk driver also provide the neccessary
CDROM capabilities. During installation of guests, even on baremetal, the 
CDROM is a serious bottleneck on install time so much so that I never install
off CDROM anymore instead using network sources. The emulated CDROM amplifies
this problem, so having the PV drivers support CDROM capabilities could be
very beneficial

Regards,
Dan.
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