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Re: [Xen-devel] Question about VBD interface


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Mark A. Williamson wrote:

> The block frontend only makes hypercalls in order to send "events" to the 
> backend driver when new requests are waiting in the shared memory region (the 
> shared memory region is updated by just assigning to structs in a ring buffer 
> and incrementing an integer index).

I have to say, now that my block frontend is working, that it is a very 
easy thing to deal with. Nice design!

And, yes, I'm now booting CPU servers in Plan 9 with network and disk. 

Still having some weird Plan 9 issues, but getting there.

ron


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