Re: [Xen-devel] What is the state of blktap2?

["David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 00:38 +0200, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:27:45PM -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> > I'm currently working on moving storage services into their own domain
> > and I've been looking at blktap2. I've been trying to get an image
> > mounted with blktap2 and for some odd reason and tapdisk2 keeps hanging
> > instead of quitting at the end. I haven't removed any of the storage
> > startup code at this point so everything should be as it normally is in
> > xen-unstable. Is this a known bug? Are there some requirements on
> > blktap2 that I'm possibly not meeting? Is there anything in particular
> > that I should be looking at to try to debug the problem?
> > 
> 
> What kernel are you using? pv_ops dom0 kernel doesn't have working blktap2 
> yet..
> linux-2.6.18-xen has working blktap2 support.
> 
> -- Pasi

I'm using the patches maintained by Andrew Lyon that are applied to
2.6.31.10. These are supposedly based on the OpenSUSE patches and can be
found at http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list. I
need a more recent kernel version so the 2.6.18 dom0 kernel isn't an
option for me.

Dave


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