[Xen-devel] PATCH: Enable QEMU booting of blktap disks

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a re-send of previous patches:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-06/msg01021.html

The only change is that it explicitly looks for the driver type in xenstore
rather than assuming 'xvd' == 'tap' - this is because tap could be configured
with 'hd' or 'sd' nodenames too, and we still need to strip the leading
':aio' or ':vmdk', etc prefix from the path.

There are two patches:

  - xen-revert-phantom-2.patch  removes the phantom device code since it
    doesn't work & is redundant if QEMU can process tap devices straight
    from xenstore

  - xen-qemu-blktap-2.patch makes QEMU able to handle disks with xvd prefix
    treating them as IDE. Also makes QEMU strip the driver type prefix from
    tap disks since it can auto-guess driver


   Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>

Dan.
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xen-qemu-blktap-2.patch
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xen-revert-phantom-2.patch
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