Xen users - Mar 2011 - Debian 6 / Xen 4 / blktap2

Hello all

I am updating a test system from Debian 5 and Xen 3.2 to Debian 6 and 
Xen 4.

After dist-upgrading, I did:

aptitude -P install xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386 linux-image-xen-686

And then fixed Grub2 to boot the xen kernel.

cat /etc/debian_version return 6, uname -a returns:

Linux xen-test 2.6.32-5-xen-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 07:52:18 UTC 2011 i686 
GNU/Linux

So far so good.

I previously used "tap:aio" to link in the hard disks of the domUs:

disk = [
     ''tap:aio:/var/xen/domains/myhost/swap.img,sda1,w'',
     ''tap:aio:/var/xen/domains/myhost/disk.img,sda2,w''
]

After some research, I see that the successor "blktap2" is not
available
as a Debian package (see http://j.mp/dK59hn).

What is the recommended way of linking in hard disk images in Debian 6?

I am aware you can use "file:", but this has not been recommended
since
Debian 4.

Alternatively, are there any unofficial repositories with packaged 
"blktap2"?

Will "blktap2" return to Debian at some point, hence waiting would be 
the best solution?

Or does anyone have any other solutions?

TIA

Jonathan Maron

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jonathan Maron
<jonathan.maron@theimagingsource.com> wrote:
> After some research, I see that the successor "blktap2" is not
available as
> a Debian package (see http://j.mp/dK59hn).
> Will "blktap2" return to Debian at some point, hence waiting
would be the
> best solution?
Ask Debian maintainers. The bug report mentions a patch has been
available for over 4 months.
>
> Or does anyone have any other solutions?
- Don''t use Debian, or
- Download the source package (something like "apt-get source" ...),
apply the patch manually, and build the package, or
- Compile xen userland tools (and possibly the kernel?) from xen.org sources

-- 
Fajar

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