Re: Question to recent xentools3 update

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:53:35AM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > I don't think it would work without a lot of work on the backend device
> > (I'm not even sure if it's possible). The backend assumes it was given a
> > block device, because it uses struct buf.
> 
> According to pkgsrc/sysutils/xentool3/patches/patch-dk, pygrub is now
> using a raw device  while the guests use the block device at the same time.
> So if I understand it correctly, it is possible to open /dev/raid0f
> and /dev/rraid0f at the same time?

yes, this is possible. What's not possible is open /dev/raid0f twice.

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