Re: [Qemu-devel] Question on virtio disk maximum index and maximum partition

2011-06-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 05:56:02AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Partitions are not at the virtio-blk level. The guest operating > system will see the virtio-blk disk and scan its partition table to > determine which partitions are available. The limit then depends on > the partitioning scheme

Re: [Qemu-devel] Question on virtio disk maximum index and maximum partition

2011-06-01 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Wei Liu wrote: > That's exactly what I'm seeing... > > Maybe I should modify the checking and make a exception for virtio > disk? Stefano, what would you say? That is not a check, it is just the upper limit to decode "vda1" or "vde2" in a disk number and partition number. I wo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Question on virtio disk maximum index and maximum partition

2011-05-31 Thread Wei Liu
Stefano Stabellini CC'ed On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Wei Liu wrote: >> I'm programming for virtio disk support in Xen tool stack. I would >> like to know the limitation of virtio disk. > > I'm interested what you are implementing - a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Question on virtio disk maximum index and maximum partition

2011-05-31 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Wei Liu wrote: > I'm programming for virtio disk support in Xen tool stack. I would > like to know the limitation of virtio disk. I'm interested what you are implementing - a virtio-blk backend for Xen (which would basically mean vhost-blk)? > That is, what's the