similar to: [PATCH] Blktap: Userspace file-based image support. (RFC)

Hi Is it true that the GPLPV drivers is incompatible with QCOW images? The Windows DomU works fine with raw standard "file:/" images, and paravirtualized Linux DomU works fine with QCOW and raw images. If i use QCOW images with my Windows DomU''s i get a stop error: 0x00000007b (inaccessible boot device). It looks like the blkback.3.hda process, that normally starts with

I''m running SLES10 SP1 and have been using file:/ for my file-backed domUs. The domUs sit on a shared OCFS2 SAN-backed filesystem and are run on my three or four XEN servers. I''m having issues with the loopback devices not being released when the domUs shutdown or migrate, so I decided to switch over to tap:aio for my file-backed domUs. This isn''t working, either.

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

Recently we had a try of stubdom, whose general status is good. One issue we found is with aio/sync blktap as backend, disk performance is obviously slower, and there are some IDE kernel error messages (like irq timeout) at boot time. Another issue (not stubdom specific) comes from blktap''s support for QCOW image which is based on a backing file. We never tried this configure

Get blktap2 running on pvops. This mainly adds eventfd support to the userland code. Based on some prior cleanup to tapdisk-queue and the server object. We had most of that in XenServer for a while, so I kept it stacked. 1. Clean up IPC and AIO init in tapdisk-server. [I think tapdisk-ipc in blktap2 is basically obsolete. Pending a later patch to remove it?] 2. Split tapdisk-queue into

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

Before, in my "Hard Problem" email I was trying to communicate a design issue were trying to solve with Xen. This is what we need to do: 1) Deploy 24 Windows XP VMs in parallel. 2) Boot them from a shared Windows XP C: drive. 3) Since this is a read-only shared image we obviously can''t have multiple VM''s writing to it. 4) All writes to the boot image for logging,

Before, in my "Hard Problem" email I was trying to communicate a design issue were trying to solve with Xen. This is what we need to do: 1) Deploy 24 Windows XP VMs in parallel. 2) Boot them from a shared Windows XP C: drive. 3) Since this is a read-only shared image we obviously can''t have multiple VM''s writing to it. 4) All writes to the boot image for logging,

Hi all, as promised I run some simple benchmarks using tapdisk2 and the new qemu as disk backends. If you are in a hurry skip to the last section to see the test results. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS --------------------- In order to reproduce these results you need to use the new qemu with linux aio and O_DIRECT as disk backend: - apply the libxl patches that Anthony sent to the list a little while

Hi, I am running XEN 4.1 on Debian 6 and I cannot find blktapctrl process running. xend is started. I installed XEN from 4.1 source following instructions here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0 Should there be a blktapctrl process running in this version? The problem I have encountered is that I can create a domain on a raw disk image but

$ git checkout RELEASE-4.2.2 $ git clean -ffdx [do a build, install, reboot] $ xl create a0 $ xl cd-eject a0 hdc [However, the guest OS still sees the CD inserted] $ xl block-list a0 Segmentation fault $ xl cd-insert a0 hdc file:/images/xs-tools-6.0.0.iso Segmentation fault The problem seems to be that xl cd-eject is writing corrupt values to xenstore. Note that vbd/1/5632 is still there

Hi All, I sent the patch to make blktap work with PV-on-HVM. I corrected the part that had been pointed out in the Xen community. ・All xvdN disk is looked like hdN. ・All tap disks are checked.(tap:aio, tap:sync, tap:vmdk, etc.) We cannot use blktap for the volume of the system with PV-on-HVM and are embarrassed. Could you apply this patch? Or, please give the comment to me. Signed-off-by:

Hi, I'm using virsh to instance a VM in my environment, but I'm running on some issues. I created the following domain file: <domain type='kvm'> <name>demovm</name> <uuid>4a9b3f53-fa2a-47f3-a757-dd87720d9d1d</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory> <currentMemory

depends on "autoconf: regenerate configure scripts with 4.4 version" This series removes some of the really old deadwood from the tools build and makes some other things which are on their way out configurable at build time with a default depending on how far down the slope I judge them to be. * nuke in tree copy of libaio * nuke obsolete tools: xsview, miniterm, lomount & sv *

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following patch when applied on top of: libxl: attempt to cleanup tapdisk processes on disk backend destroy. Establishes correct cleanup behavior for blktap devices. This patch implements the release of the backend device before calling for the destruction of the userspace component of the blktap device. Without

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

[PATCH 4/4] Add libvdisk, and vdisk_tool vdisk-support.patch provides libvdisk, and vdisk_tool, as described in [PATCH 0/4] Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <bostrovsky@virtualiron.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Guthro <bguthro@virtualiron.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Hi. I want use xen with dynamic slices. For example, I have 20 domU based on FreeBSD, xen hypervisor 3.3.1, Debian Lenny dom0 system. All domUs have 80Gb LVM partitions, but realy they use 20 of this 80Gb and I want to create more domU''s. How can I do it? I know that some virtualisation have possibility to do dynamic slices(4 example Virtul box) -- Best Regards, alex.faq8@gmail.com

> AW> This should be fixable though. I''m also not sure how carefully > AW> dm-u watches block completion responses to ensure safety of > AW> metadata updates relative to data writes. This too should be > AW> fixable -- i just don''t know if the user-level tools can currently > AW> request completion notifications on requests that they''ve

Hi, I''ve been working on getting a working blktap driver allowing to access ceph RBD block devices without relying on the RBD kernel driver and it finally got to a point where, it works and is testable. Some of the advantages are: - Easier to update to newer RBD version - Allows functionality only available in the userspace RBD library (write cache, layering, ...) - Less issue when