Re: Xen boot failures with disks >16K (tap device issues)

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Well, I thought there were two kinds of "tap" devices when working
> with Xen, at least on NetBSD-- the Xen tap device which is used to
> define block access methods in a "disk" definition ("tap:aio",
> "tap:qcow"), and the NetBSD tap(4) device, which kicks in with the
> ioemu flag for the vif device (HVM network driver).  I'm talking
> about the former.  If they refer to the same thing (HVM drivers)

Nope.  tap(4) on NetBSD works just fine without any Xen anywhere
nearby.  (tap(4) is a virtual Ethernet, much the way tun(4) is a
virtual IP link or pty(4) is a virtual serial line.)

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