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I was wondering if someone can shed some light on why vhd files created with qemu-img don''t really work right with vhd-util and consequentially blktap in general. To validate the incompatiblity its simple enough to do qemu-img create -f vpc test.vhd 40g vhd-util snapshot -n child.vhd -p test.vhd Which will show the below and then the headers don''t display the BATMAP summary:

All the resources allocated based on xen_blkif_reqs are global in blkback. While (without having measured anything) I think that this is bad from a QoS perspective (not the least implied from a warning issued by Citrix''es multi-page-ring patches: if (blkif_reqs < BLK_RING_SIZE(order)) printk(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: " "I/O request space (%d reqs) < ring