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xen-ppc-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd.
 
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Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Re: [Xen-devel] Status of xvd and problems with sd. | 
 
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Tony Breeds <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:45:36 +1000 | 
 
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:43:30PM +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:18:48AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:28 +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> > > If you would like to do the work to switch xm-test over to use xvd, that 
> > > would
> > > be greatly appreciated.  xvd has not been widely tested, and extending the
> > > coverage to xm-test would be very useful indeed.
> > 
> > Not entirely true... the normal Fedora installation path has been using
> > xvd for quite a while now 
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> Excellent news!  That's your green light, Jimi ;-)
Cool.  I'll tackle this.
I expect we'll neeed to create some extra device nodes (/dev/xvd*) in
the initrd so we may need to bump the xm-test version to 1.1 when this
goes in to make sure everything stays in sync.
Yours Tony
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