[xenpreview-dev] No blktap driver?

[John Byrne]

Oops. (Trivial) Patch attached.

John Byrne wrote:
> Charles,
> 
> A couple of things you may not yet have run in to.
> 
> 1.) blktap won't build as a module. The patch I just submitted to 
> xen-devel is attached. You can work around it without the patch by 
> defining both CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND and CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP to "y" in the 
> config.
> 
> 2.) The "tap:aio" driver doesn't work if CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is set to 
> "y". You might consider disabling this in your config.
> 
> John
> 
> Charles Coffing wrote:
>> I'll do this next week.  Build guy is out next week, though, so it'll 
>> be after the new year before it's on XTP.  :-/
>>
>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at  6:51 PM, in message 
>>>>> <458B3A0D.6070009 at hp.com>, John
>> Byrne <john.l.byrne at hp.com> wrote:
>>> There looked to be fix for qcow that just missed Xen 3.0.4. Any 
>>> chance of pulling it in? (Some of us are really interested in qcow.)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> Charles Coffing wrote:
>>>> Oversight.  We just noticed this too; it will be on in the next build.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks...
>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at  3:30 PM, in message 
>>>>>>> <458B0AF1.4070705 at hp.com>, John
>>>> Byrne <john.l.byrne at hp.com> wrote:
>>>>> The blktap driver isn't built in the latest bits. Given the 
>>>>> problems with the block-  loop driver, I expected it and for Yast 
>>>>> to have been converted to using it. Oversight? Or is there a reason?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> John Byrne
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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