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Re: [Xen-devel] blktap for HVM guests without PV-on-HVM drivers

To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] blktap for HVM guests without PV-on-HVM drivers
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:53:06 +0000
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Currently qemu cannot access the PV backend driver data path. So PV backends
are only accessible using PV-on-HVM drivers within the HVM guest.

 -- Keir


On 28/1/08 13:17, "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is blktap interposing supported for HVM guests not using PV-on-HVM
> drivers? When using tap:aio with an HVM domain, we see that td_open
> and td_close are getting called, but none of td_queue_read,
> td_queue_write and td_submit. Is this supposed to work?
> 
> Cheers,
> Muli
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