Liu Yuan wrote: > On 10/11/2011 02:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Anybody working on porting Sheepdog to support Xen? > > Sheepdog doesn't assume the underlying virtualization technology. > Sheepdog just provide a storage solution for VM (whether it is Xen or > KVM enabling). As far as I know, Xen uses a very ancient Qemu that is > supposed to model the device. KVM also use qemu as it is device model, > but it is almost latest upstream and sheepdog block driver was > accepted into qemu above 0.13(?) if I remember correctly. > > Anyway, Both Xen and KVM use qemu as its device model. So backporting > sheepdog driver would be not a big deal. and MORITA Kazutaka wrote: > AFAIK, nobody is working on it. But I think we can easily support it > by creating a new blktap driver in Xen. That would be cool, but a question: Why not implement the API as simply a standard disk device interface - the same way that md or lvm appear as standard devices under /dev (or for that matter Vastsky)? What's the point of tying things so closely to QEMU? Miles Fidelman |