[XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:43:30PM +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:18:48AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:28 +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote: > > > If you would like to do the work to switch xm-test over to use xvd, that > > > would > > > be greatly appreciated. xvd has not been widely tested, and extending the > > > coverage to xm-test would be very useful indeed. > > > > Not entirely true... the normal Fedora installation path has been using > > xvd for quite a while now > > Excellent news! That's your green light, Jimi ;-) Cool. I'll tackle this. I expect we'll neeed to create some extra device nodes (/dev/xvd*) in the initrd so we may need to bump the xm-test version to 1.1 when this goes in to make sure everything stays in sync. Yours Tony linux.conf.au http://linux.conf.au/ || http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Jan 15-20 2007 The Australian Linux Technical Conference! ___ Xen-ppc-devel mailing list Xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ppc-devel
[XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:18:48AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:28 +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote: > > If you would like to do the work to switch xm-test over to use xvd, that > > would > > be greatly appreciated. xvd has not been widely tested, and extending the > > coverage to xm-test would be very useful indeed. > > Not entirely true... the normal Fedora installation path has been using > xvd for quite a while now Excellent news! That's your green light, Jimi ;-) Ewan. ___ Xen-ppc-devel mailing list Xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ppc-devel
[XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd.
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:28 +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote: > If you would like to do the work to switch xm-test over to use xvd, that would > be greatly appreciated. xvd has not been widely tested, and extending the > coverage to xm-test would be very useful indeed. Not entirely true... the normal Fedora installation path has been using xvd for quite a while now Jeremy ___ Xen-ppc-devel mailing list Xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ppc-devel
[XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:01:28AM -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote: > Ewan, any thoughts on this issue? > -JX > On Oct 23, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Jimi Xenidis wrote: > > >On PPC we have the following problem with xm-test: > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq#head- > >baa7000e8fc28fd168650114dd2741b7f21da8fa > > > >Where we are told: > > "all you need to do is disable the entire scsi subsystem" > > > >This is undesirable since our (the XenPPC Team) goal is to have one > >Linux image to run everywhere. > > > >We could switch over all the xm-tests to use xvd (Xen Virtual Block > >Device), but before we do that we'd like to know what the support > >for xvd is and what if any issues/opinion are there with doing this? We really should start switching over to using xvd. We've been allocated that major for exactly this reason -- to ensure that one Linux image can have both the real SCSI subsystem and the Xen frontend drivers at the same time. If you would like to do the work to switch xm-test over to use xvd, that would be greatly appreciated. xvd has not been widely tested, and extending the coverage to xm-test would be very useful indeed. Cheers, Ewan. ___ Xen-ppc-devel mailing list Xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ppc-devel
[XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd.
Ewan, any thoughts on this issue? -JX On Oct 23, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Jimi Xenidis wrote: On PPC we have the following problem with xm-test: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq#head- baa7000e8fc28fd168650114dd2741b7f21da8fa Where we are told: "all you need to do is disable the entire scsi subsystem" This is undesirable since our (the XenPPC Team) goal is to have one Linux image to run everywhere. We could switch over all the xm-tests to use xvd (Xen Virtual Block Device), but before we do that we'd like to know what the support for xvd is and what if any issues/opinion are there with doing this? -JX ___ Xen-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel ___ Xen-ppc-devel mailing list Xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ppc-devel
