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Re: [Xen-devel] Tap:aio not working in current unstable?

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Tap:aio not working in current unstable?
From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:49:33 +0000
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Hi,

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:11 +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, but I have a 15gb image that I use
> with disk = [ "tap:aio:/root/images/vista32.img,hda,w" ]
> 
> It was working fine on Friday, but today it failed to boot with an error
> message. 
> 
> The same works fine when I replace "tap:aio:" with "file:". It seems
> like qemu-dm tries to open the file with the "aio:" still attached -
> judging by the message in qemu-dm.<pid>.log. 
> 
> I can't see any recent changes that is supposed to change this - did I
> miss something, or is it just gone broken?

        Are you using pygrub? Currently booting from tap:aio fails with pygrub.
See patch at:

  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-03/msg00156.html

Cheers,
Mark.


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