Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver for xvdX disk

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/16/2015 10:01 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Anthony PERARD writes ("[PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver for xvdX disk"):
> > When a guest configuration list xvdX for its disks, there is no need to
> > provide an emulated driver for the same target.
> >
> > Such configuration can work with the OVMF firmware, as it supports PV
> > disk.
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson<ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have checked this with the docs, and this change makes the libxl
> behave as documented and as I intended when I wrote the doc.

This commit prevents a guest from discovering disks that specify xvdX 
("disk = [ '/root/virt/fedora.img,raw,xvda,rw' ]", for example).
TBH, I am not sure I understand how this is supposed to work --- how is 
the guest expected to discover the disk?
-boris

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