Re: [Xen-devel] missing block script support for qemu in libxl

2015-11-19 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-devel- > boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Olaf Hering > Sent: 18 November 2015 09:45 > To: George Dunlap > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] missing block script supp

Re: [Xen-devel] missing block script support for qemu in libxl

2015-11-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Nov 18, George Dunlap wrote: > You mean, should the bug wherein HVM domains with emulated disks > (which is all of them, by default) cannot use block scripts be fixed? Yes. > Yes it should, and I'm working on it at the moment. Great. Please cc me when the patches are ready. Olaf _

Re: [Xen-devel] missing block script support for qemu in libxl

2015-11-18 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:35 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: >> Why does libxl now allow script= with backend=tap|qdisk? See >> tools/libxl/libxl_device.c:disk_try_backend. >> >> Ideally the script should prepare the backend storage based on info fro

Re: [Xen-devel] missing block script support for qemu in libxl

2015-11-18 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: > Why does libxl now allow script= with backend=tap|qdisk? See > tools/libxl/libxl_device.c:disk_try_backend. > > Ideally the script should prepare the backend storage based on info from > target=. Then the script should report either the dentry

[Xen-devel] missing block script support for qemu in libxl

2015-11-18 Thread Olaf Hering
Why does libxl now allow script= with backend=tap|qdisk? See tools/libxl/libxl_device.c:disk_try_backend. Ideally the script should prepare the backend storage based on info from target=. Then the script should report either the dentry to be used by qemu back to libxl, or it should setup the "phys