On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:40:01PM -0800, J Nb wrote: > Thanks. > > It seems this is post 3.4 release.. any plans on getting these for older version ? (may be a question for xen-devel forum.) > Yeah, blktap2 is only in xen-unstable.hg, not in xen-3.4-testing.hg. blktap2 will be part of upcoming Xen 4.0 release. I believe the patches should apply to xen 3.4 aswell: http://markmail.org/message/dqcil5uyigwlk2sr#query:+page:1+mid:ihjbbiicmegssg5v+state:results -- Pasi > What about KVM ? Is there a plan to get this in to qemu / kvm ? Also, make it available to older versions of qemu/kvm. > > Just trying to see how this important feature can be used by people currently (which are using xen and kvm from their distros.) > > -nb > > > --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: migration and snapshots. > > To: "J Nb" <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: "kvm" <kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 9:12 AM > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:55:34AM > > -0800, J Nb wrote: > > > What would be a good storage topology for allowing for > > migration as well as support snapshots (for backup) > > > > > > Would love to hear recommendations as well as details > > on setup that people are using. (I am assuming that this is > > possible.) > > > > > > Here is my current understanding.. > > > > > > LVM -- Snapshots but not shared. > > > CLVM -- shared but no snapshots. (yet) > > > NFS/GFS -- Shared FS but no snapshots > > > > > > > > > qcow2 files and VHD file supports snapshots... but VHD > > is not yet available in Xen or KVM. > > > > > > > blktap2 backend in Xen supports VHD. > > > > See: http://markmail.org/message/dqcil5uyigwlk2sr > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
