similar to: blktap2 and qcow2 images

This patch series introduces the VHD library. It is based on the blktap2 one, with changes coming from the blktap2.5 one. Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@citrix.com>

This patch series copies the core of the tapdisk process from blktap2, with updates coming from blktap2.5. Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@citrix.com>

blktap2: fix makefile of vhd for parallel make With parallel make, libvhd might not be created before link resulting in link error. This patch guarantees it. Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp> diff --git a/tools/blktap2/vhd/Makefile b/tools/blktap2/vhd/Makefile --- a/tools/blktap2/vhd/Makefile +++ b/tools/blktap2/vhd/Makefile @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ CFLAGS +=

Hi, I''d like to use the blktap utils from https://github.com/xen-org/blktap because of the mirror feature, as the blktap utils comming with xen does not support this. Could anybody explain why there are two different blktap utils (one in git and one comming with xen source) and how to compile the one from git so that it works with libxl ? Any pointers greatly appreciated ;-) Thanks

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

Changes: tools/blktap: remove unneeded pointer dereferencing in convert_dev_name_to_num tools/blktap: constify string arrays in convert_dev_name_to_num tools/blktap: fix params and physical-device parsing tools/blktap: remove unneeded pointer dereferencing from img2qcow.c tools/blktap: remove unneeded pointer dereferencing from qcow2raw.c tools/blktap2: fix build errors caused by Werror in

Hi there, I''m running several VMs within Xen, and now I''m trying to create/revert snapshots of my VMs. Along with Xen and blktap2, another utility, vhd-util is also delivered, and according to its description, i guess I can use it to create/revert VM snapshots. To create a snapshot is actually easy, I just call |vhd-util snapshot -n aSnapShot.vhd -p theVMtoBackup.vhd | But

I''m getting this message (subject line) in daemon.log every time I start or restart xend. I''m not sure if this is related to the fact that I cannot boot up my Windows domU from a VHD file. The Windows domU was working fine with Xen 4.0.0 (with 2.6.32.14 dom0 kernel). When I upgraded to Xen 4.0.1-rc4 (with 2.6.32.16 dom0 kernel), I can no long boot the Windows domU from VHD. The

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:

Hi, I''m trying to boot a PV VM I just installed (following http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Debian_Guest_Installation_Using_Debian_Installer) without success. My XEN installation is xen-unstable 54c8c9eaee92+ on a Debian unstable machine (x86_64), kernel 3.3.4+. The VM I installed is, again, a Debian unstable x86_64. The installation went smoothly; I used an 8GB file as a disk back-end. I went

Hi all. I''m using sles11 for my xen servers. I would really like to be able to do hot snapshots of disk AND memory, and then have these snapshots backed up to tape or off site for disaster recovery. I''m thinking this would be done weekly or monthly, not nightly. Two questions: 1) Is this even possible? 2) I could probably have the systems shutdown to make a clean backups, but

Hi I want to convert an MS virtual machines to Xen VM .programmatically on linux. Is there any tool or help? Please do the needful. Thanks & Regards, Vikram Singh Sotware Engineer R Systems International Ltd. An ISO 27001 and CMMI Level 5 Company C-40 Sector 59 Noida (India) GSM:+91- 9818782344 " Some people dream of success.....While others wake up and work hard at it.

Folks, The tag 4.0.1-rc3 has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg Please test! -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Hi, I''m currently trying xen 4.1.1 with the 3.0.0-rc5 (heard that it now contains the xen code to run as front or back xen domain). Everything seems to run fine, except that I am trying since a few hours to mount a .vhd file in the dom0. What I tried so far: to create a blank vhd file (this is working): host# vhd-util create -n /storage/test.vhd -s 20G Then i try to mount the file

Forwarding to you original patch requested. It works for me. Boris --- On Sun, 7/11/10, eXeC001er <execooler@gmail.com> wrote: From: eXeC001er <execooler@gmail.com> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blktap2: blktap2 and pygrub (xen-unstable) To: "Xen-devel" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 9:18 AM 1. Bug fix for error: "Error: Device

For those wanting to know how to mount filesystems through blktap2 here is how you do it, as I couldn''t find it fully documented. The instructions on the blktap2 readme file are rather out of date. You can mount them under Dom0 like so. e.g. to mount a vhd file, sudo xm block-attach 0 tap2:vhd:/home/xen/xenwin7-persist.vhd xvdb w 0 Now the device should appear under /dev ls

This patch series introduces the shared ring used by the front-end to pass request descriptors to tapdisk, as well as responses from tapdisk to the front-end. Requests from this ring end up in tapdisk''s standard request queue. When the tapback daemon detects that the front-end tries to connect to the back-end, it spawns a tapdisk and tells it to connect to the shared ring. The shared

Hi, List, I''m trying xl create a pv guest with qcow/qcow2 image, it always fails at libxl_device_disk_local_attach. #xl create pv_config_file libxl: error: libxl.c:1119:libxl_device_disk_local_attach: cannot locally attach a qdisk image if the format is not raw libxl: error: libxl_create.c:467:do_domain_create: failed to run bootloader: -3 disk configuration is: disk=[

I'm trying to debug what I believe to be a kernel bug (https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2016-March/014463.html) and I'm trying to set up systemtap for that. I'm trying to set up systemtap on kernel 3.18.21-17.el6.x86_64 (Xen 4.4.3-10.el6) and it requires the kernel-debuginfo package, however I cannot find anywhere package kernel-debuginfo-3.18.21-17.el6.x86_64.rpm. In

Hi, In most cases we use image files as virtual disks under the full-virtualization situation.On the version 4.1.2 of xen,I do the following command: ############################################################ dd if=/dev/zero of=myraw.img bs=1M seek=8K count=1 #Before the command below I install the operating system in myraw.img qemu-img-xen create -b myraw.img -f qcow2 myqcow1.img 20000M