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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: remove blktap when building for NetBSD

On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 18:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> ~Roger Pau Monne writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: remove blktap when 
> building for NetBSD"):
> > NetBSD has no blktap support, so remove the use of the blktap if the OS is 
> > NetBSD.
> 
> Applied to qemu-xen-unstable.git.  Is there a need for a similar patch
> to qemu upstream ?

I don't think upstream qemu has (or will/should have) any blktap
support.

Having said that it's not exactly clear what, if anything, this blktap
support in qemu-xen is actually used for... It looks a bit like once
upon time it was an option to use qemu to provide the blktap (v1)
userspace backend instead of the tapdisk process (look for qemu and
use_ioemu in tools/blktap/drivers/blktapctrl.c). This functionality does
not appear to be present in blktap2.

Ian.



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