On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 19:30 +0100, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > Hi, > > I've committed today a driver for the Xen paravirtualized disk > interface also known as Blkfront. Despite being pretty stable > for me so far, it's not enabled by default at the moment. > Therefore I'm looking for additional tests on different Xen > versions and EC2 instances to ensure robustness and performance > of the software. > > To enable the driver, uncomment the xbf line in the kernel > config file (/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC) and re-configure and > re-build the kernel. The system will automatically switch all > available wd* disks to sd* but, unless you have opted out of > using disklabel UIDs in the /etc/fstab, there's no configuration > tweaking required. > > Please report successes and failures. In case of a reproducible > issue, please enable the XEN_DEBUG define in /sys/dev/pv/xenvar.h, > rebuild you kernel and send me relevant lines from the log (copied > from the console or /var/log/messages). > > Cheers, > Mike
Reyk has endured some EC2 breakage and helped a great deal with debugging. As a result there has been some critical changes after the initial check in so please make sure that xbf.c is at 1.5. Cheers, Mike
