Boris Ostrovsky writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver
for xvdX disk"):
> On 10/27/2015 09:19 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > If you want something that is accessible via the BIOS etc. in HVM
> > guests, why not use vdev=hda rather than vdev=xvda ?
>
> Yes, but since we've discovered that people do use xvda (and have been
> doing this for long time --- our test framework has been running for
> many years configured like that) --- do we want this to suddenly break?
So you want us to change the spec to match the implementation ?
(I haven't looked what happens with trad qemu.)
If we change the spec, how would a user request an xvda with no
emulated device ?
Ian.
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