On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:00:35AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block > devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical > block device driver. Any reason you're using the old crappy xen I/O code instead of Rusty's alternative version? Also please stop this stupid front/back naming. In Linux terminology the frontend is the client if there's a need for a postfix at all, and the backend the server. Compare that to e.g. ibm vio.