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Hi There, I''ve been trying to get this to work for the last couple of days, but found no information on the internet that would help. Essentially, a tap-ctl opencommand with a qcow2 image does not work (error code 2) and produces the following line in syslog: tap-ctl: tap-err:tap_ctl_open: open failed, err -2 I have attached a shell script that reproduces the problem on my machine. The same script works fine if I use image format raw and the aio: prefex to the -a option. My machine is basically a clean Ubuntu 12.04 desktop 64bit machine with everything up to date. Cheers, Seb...

This patch series introduces the tapback daemon, the user space daemon that acts as a device''s back-end, essentially most of blkback in user space. The daemon is responsible for coordinating the front-end and tapdisk. It creates tapdisk process as needed, instructs them to connect to/disconnect from the shared ring, and manages the state of the back-end. The shared ring between the