WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] blktap2: help please?

To: Aleix Dorca <adorca@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] blktap2: help please?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 00:19:31 +0300
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:25:27 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20100408204855.GL1878@xxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <4BBE3CE9.6020103@xxxxxx> <20100408204855.GL1878@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 11:48:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:30:33PM +0200, Aleix Dorca wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > i've just installed xen 4.0. Since always blktapctl has never worked on
> > my dell 1950III. I even posted a bug but so far i can't use tap:aio or
> > similar.
> > 
> > I thought that with version 4 this would work, but it didn't. I still
> > see syslog errors from blktap version 1.0.0.
> > 
> > Today i wanted to try version 2 I found on the xen/tools source folder.
> > I compiled the source with make && make install, no problem, but it
> > seems I also need the kernel driver. I've tried both 2.6.31.13 and
> > 2.6.32.11 and none has the config TAP2 option, only the TAP. It depends
> > on something to be seen? Or maybe is in another version of the kernel?
> > 
> > How can I try blktap2 please...
> > 
> 
> pvops dom0 2.6.32.11 has blktap2 driver included, and it should work with Xen 
> 4.0.0.
> At least Jeremy has been using it with a pvops dom0 kernel and Xen 4.0.0.
> 

I just quickly wrote this wiki page:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/blktap2

It's still far from complete.. 

-- Pasi


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>