Bug#586772: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

2012-03-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 21:03 +0100, Niccolò Belli wrote: Il 08/03/2012 18:47, Ian Campbell ha scritto: There was a breakage of the blktap userspace- kernel ABI at one point, which might stop 4.1 working with 2.6.32 era kernel wihch might also explain this. That may be the problem indeed,

Bug#586772: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

2012-03-14 Thread Niccolò Belli
Il 14/03/2012 14:34, Ian Campbell ha scritto: I should have asked -- what exactly didn't work, what was the failure mode? (I'm wondering if my thoughts about this compatibility issue I mentioned above might have been jumping to a conclusion without sufficient data?) As soon as you load the

Bug#586772: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

2012-03-08 Thread Niccolò Belli
Il 08/03/2012 18:47, Ian Campbell ha scritto: There was a breakage of the blktap userspace- kernel ABI at one point, which might stop 4.1 working with 2.6.32 era kernel wihch might also explain this. That may be the problem indeed, the only reason Squeeze didn't get blktap2 was a stupid

Bug#586772: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

2012-03-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 11:19 +0100, Niccolò Belli wrote: Forget about blktap2 in Squeeze... Unfortunately it doesn't work even backporting 4.1.2-3. There is no kernel side in Squeeze so backporting the userspace side will not work. You could try backporting the blktap-dkms stuff from

Bug#586772: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

2012-03-08 Thread Niccolò Belli
Uh? Really? I'm pretty sure blktap2 did work with upstream xen-4.0-rc$something (not the debian packages) and the official (pre-)Squeeze 2.6.32 xen kernel. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: There is no kernel side in Squeeze so backporting the userspace side

Bug#586772: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#586772: Bug#586772: blktap2 Support

2012-03-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:44 +0100, Niccolò Belli wrote: Uh? Really? I'm pretty sure blktap2 did work with upstream xen-4.0-rc$something (not the debian packages) and the official (pre-)Squeeze 2.6.32 xen kernel. Hmm. Perhaps I'm confused then. There was a breakage of the blktap userspace -