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Re: [Xen-API] pygrub-related question

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To:	Jonathan Ludlam <Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-API] pygrub-related question
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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:16:05 -0800
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On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:13 -0500, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
> Generally speaking, as far as xapi is concerned, there's no difference 
> between a VHD backed VDI and any other kind - they all get block attached to 
> dom0 for any data access. However, IIRC, the HA statefile and the redo log 
> are both accessed directly - but this would only be enabled if you've got HA 
> turned on.
> 
> Other than that, I don't recall that we ever directly touch raw block 
> devices, though I'll check more thoroughly tomorrow.

Not for VM.install/import and VM.start then.

I'm not aware of any other opportunities either. 

Thanks very much Jon.

Daniel


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