On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:10 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > the virtual device seen by the xen kernel will be sda1, not the physical > > drive, so replacing this is just wrong. > > You can in the /etc/xen/*config files pick either ide or scsi emulation for > xen. Is there a preference for scsi? I've always used ide so far, since in > general that gives less problems and dependancies (eg on initrd features). > Is one faster/better/more reliable/ then the other? In general, I'd suggest doing neither and instead using the LANANA approved /dev/xvd devices. If you pretend with either IDE or SCSI, the xen block driver does heinous things with stealing block majors and I wouldn't expect this support to stay as some of the Xen drivers start to move upstream Jeremy Jeremy
