[Pkg-xen-devel] xen 4.1 blktap2 support

[Mike Viau]

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:35:37 +0200 <darkbasic4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Il 27/04/2011 21:30, Mike Viau ha scritto:
> > The change-log shows that blktap2 has been enabled in Debian xen 4.1 packages since 4.1.0~rc6-1.
>
> Really? Because I get an error when trying to use it:
> Error: ('create', '-aaio:/srv/xen/niko.img') failed (32512 )
>
> This is my disk line:
> 'tap2:tapdisk:aio:/srv/xen/niko.img,xvda,w',
>

Have you tried

'tap:tapdisk:aio:/srv/xen/niko.img,xvda,w' ?


I remember this being the case with Xen 4.0, I am not certain with 4.1 as I primarily use phy: back-ends.

Also ensure kernel driver/module (blktap2, similar to blkback) is running in Dom0.


-M