[fedora-virt] handling guest-service dependencies at boot time elegantly?

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Fri Jun 12 06:42:18 UTC 2009


Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Does Xen deal with a device going away and coming back with the same 
> name?  Either automatic or via hotplugging would be effective.  I'm 
> using /dev/disk/by-path/ names so they should line up correctly at least.

Yes, this should be fine.  You can do "xm block-detach" followed by an "xm
block-attach" without issues, and the blkfront driver in the guest handles it.

-- 
Chris Lalancette




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