On Jan 7, 2012 8:44 PM, "victor romanchuk" <r...@persimplex.net> wrote: > > Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 01/07/2012 03:51 PM: > > since xen got into the mainstream kernel the way to go is to use > > gentoo-sources for dom0 and the domUs. However the blktap modules are not > > there. Is there any way to get this to work? > > blktap drivers were excluded from kernel mainline since 3.x, these two threads > from xen-users mailing list might put some light in that context: > > http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-07/msg00637.html > http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-10/msg00065.html > > the latest sys-kernel/xen-sources containing working blktap (not blktap2) is > 2.6.38 (this is buggy from my point of view; i'm still sitting on 2.6.34-r5 for > production installations) >
Can someone shed a light on the importance of blktap, i.e., why one would want to use it when -- as someone explained in the first email thread you gave -- blkfront+blkend is enough for paravirtualization? Rgds,
