Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:58:52 +0100 | From | Stefano Stabellini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/13] Unplug emulated disks and nics |
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Don Dutile wrote: > The problem with this check/enable is that if you run > this on an older qemu-xen that doesn't have unplug support, > it fails pv-hvm configuration. > > But, all that means is that you can't use an xvd as the boot device, > and you have to use an emulated IDE device as boot device. > There are a couple ways to configure the vnif correctly (in guest > or in xen guest config file). > > So, on an older (say, rhel5) xen, I don't have this check; > the boot device is required to be spec'd as hda, not vda, and > xen-blkfront is not allowed to configure blk major nums > for IDE (& SCSI) (to avoid 2 drivers twiddling w/same phys backend... not good!). >
Who is requiring that the boot device is spec'd as hda and not xvda? I don't think there is such limitation in xend or libxl at the moment.
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