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Re: [Xen-users] Problem using tap:aio with disk on Scientific Linux (RHE

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Problem using tap:aio with disk on Scientific Linux (RHEL clone)
From: jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:41:40 -0400
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On Tue September 25 2007 7:37:33 pm Cam Macdonell wrote:
> With no luck, I eventually tried switching the disk to "file:"
> from "tap:aio" and then the install finally detected the disk.

I had a problem with tap:aio: disks not being recognized on an hvm guest. 
Don't know if this applies to pv, but specifying just 'tap:' worked, and I 
still got the performance benefit.

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