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Re: [Xen-devel] tap vs tap2 (libxl & xend)

from [Stefano Stabellini] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] tap vs tap2 (libxl & xend)
From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:53:56 +0000
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
> Is there a reason behind libxl not accepting tap2:.. disk format, while xend 
> seems to? I know the latter is being phased out slowly, but IIRC, with 4.0.1, 
> we moved to tap2 addressing explicitly.
> 

Apart from the fact the the tap2 syntax doesn't make any sense, xl
should provide VM config compatibility so it should support the tap2:
syntax. Kamala sent a patch for that yesterday.

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