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Hello, I have been playing around with Remus on Xen 4.0.1, attempting to fail-over for an HVM domU. I''ve run into some problems that I think could be related to tapdisk2 and its interaction with how one sets up Remus disk replication in the domU config file. A few things I''ve noticed: -The tap:remus:backupHostIP:port|aio:imagePath notation does not work for me, although this

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

Package: xen-utils-4.0 Version: 4.0.1-1 Severity: normal Due to license issues this version of Xen does not include the blktap2 backend (tapdisk2) and associated utilities (vhd-util, etc.). The decision was made to disable the blktap v1 kernel module (the default is now blktap2). As a result we can't use any tap devices which means worse performance than previousl. Since blktap1 was available

Hi, Currently i''m going through the source codes of tools/blktap2. I need to find-out where blktap2 calls 1. mem_share_nominate() 2. mem_sharing_share_page() functions to do the memory sharing on HVM guests. Can someone please provide me some guidance on blktap2 driver. Thanks, Harshan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list

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

Hi, I''ve been testing Xen 4.0.1 with kernel 2.6.34.5 + http://gentoo-xen-kernel.googlecode.com/files/xen-patches-2.6.34-4.tar.bz2, and one of the things that I noticed immediately is there are two problems with tapdisk and this combination. First, the syntax "disk = [''tap:tapdisk:aio: ..." no longer works. When tested with HVM domU, it boots, but there was no disk

Hi Guys, I''m working with: 1. xen 4.1; 2. dom0 ubuntu kernel 3.2 I''m trying to run remus with disk replication (I can run without disk replication). But I read I need to use tap2 < http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/remus/doc.html>. Well... first I tried to create a pv guest. Then I take this guest.cfg: 1. name = "ubuntu-ha" 2. memory = 256 3. disk =

Hi, ALL When I use "tap" config, the VM is OK. Than I replace disk config "tap" with "tap2", And VM hangs during bootup. I use "xm list" to list vm and find the time of hanged VM is growing fast. After VM hangs, we can not create other VMs. It prints "Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working" . How can I fix it?

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

Hi, When I do the "make install-tools" with xen-4.2-unstable, there are some errors about "warn_unused_result". Is it the error in code or the error in the compiling environment? Thank you so much. gcc -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m64 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D__XEN_TOOLS__ -MMD -MF .tapdisk-queue.o.d

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

Hi, I''m trying to run guest pv vm on my machine running xen-unstable (xen-4.0.0-rc3.pre + linux-2.6-pvops). However, I get blktap error: " sudo xm create -c xmexample Using config file "./xmexample". Error: Failed to create device. stdout: unrecognized child response stderr: Check that target "/home/ashish/xen/hd.img" exists and that blktap2 driver

Hello, I''m currently trying to understand some problems I had in the past with mixing look-back with blktap(2) for HV and PV domains. I''m stuck reading the source code, so I''d like to get some help from the list. Interrupt me if I got something fundamentally wrong in my understanding so far: 1. With pure-HV the domU gets an emulated IDE (or whatever) disk. The

Hi, Just wondering if anyone can point me to the new locations for xen/next-3.0 repo? git.kernel.org doesn''t appear to be coming back up (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/06/linus_torvalds_dumps_kernel_for_github/) and the XenParavirtOps wiki page still refers to that. Searching the list didn''t seem to come up with anything. Thanks, Nathan -- Nathan

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

Hello, I''m using Xen (installed from source - "hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg") on Debian Lenny. Dom0 kernel is 2.6.32-bpo.5-xen-686. Until now I have successfully ran the Lucid Ubuntu as domU guest, defining disks as (and also as file:): disk = [''tap2:aio:/home/xen/domains/lucid/disk.img,xvda1,w'',

You''re right scout the last line. Out looks like xapi is waiting on tapdisk to plug a key into xenstore. Perhaps a udev rule problem? Perhaps someone who knows more about tapdisk than I well be able to diagnose this tomorrow. Mike Sent from Samsung tablet Sébastien RICCIO <sr@swisscenter.com> wrote: Of course, here it is attached. Last line seems interesting. However tapdisk2

# HG changeset patch # User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> # Date 1300271932 0 # Node ID 7e326d27d899a3133479c8b7c983f660cdeda48c # Parent f35234b6636a0410a7d5eaa409e98ebe59080e4f tools: do not link against unused libraries. A fair few things under tools link against libraries which they don''t even use. Most of this appears to come from copy-and-pasting previous Makefile

I''m newbie Xen-4.1.1 I''m trying to boot DomU with the following configuration. Sometime DomU boot, but sometime boot failed I''m not sure what is the problem. I can attach that image with tap-ctl on Dom0. Does anybody advice me about this problem?? Sincerely * Environment OS : Scientific Linux 6.1 x86_64 Kernel : 2.6.32.43

Hi folks, I met a problem: when 6 VM reboot at the same time, 3:00 morning, the Dom0 reboot it self: Xen version is 4.0.0, VMs are windows 2003 with redhat pv, they will update and reboot itself every 3:00 AM. # last ... ... admin pts/0 10.247.1.1 Fri Jun 25 03:40 - 04:30 (00:50) reboot system boot 2.6.31.13 Fri Jun 25 11:16 (00:-3) admin pts/0