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Re: [Xen-users] regarding block tap

To: Raja <raja_btl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] regarding block tap
From: Andrew Ross <aross@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:57:31 +1100
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Raja wrote:

>    I read a paper on softdevices that talked about using the block tap
> feature to interpose between a backend domain and a front end guest
> domain. I would like to know as to how to utilize this feature.
> Somewhere, i also found a library to utilize this . But i am clueless as
> to how to integrate all these pieces together. Should i start a new
> domain and then write out programs using the library on that domain?...
> has any one worked with the block tap code?

You're probably going to get a better answer to that on the -dev list.

Don't forget that blktap is completely broken in xen 3.0.2 (it won't
even compile), so you'll want to use 3.0.3

Cheers

Andrew

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