Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] libxl: basic support for virtio disk

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] libxl: basic support 
> for virtio disk"):
> > The limitation on the number of partitions is meaningless for virtio and
> > the limitation on the number of disks in arbitrary, as it is arbitrary
> > the current limitation on the number of scsi disks.
> 
> So the code in libxl should accept any disk number that it can
> correctly format into an option to qemu, and allow qemu to deal with
> any resulting problems.

it is going to be probably INT_MAX then


> > Device names like xvda1, xvda2, etc, are currently supported only with
> > PV guests.
> 
> Currently the partition number is ignored.  Nonzero partitions should
> instead then be rejected.
> 

good point


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