Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about xen disk unplug support for ahci missed in qemu

[Eric Blake]

On 10/16/2015 10:20 AM, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----

>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/13/2015 11:55 AM, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> I added ahci disk support in libxl and using it for week seems

Do we really need this many levels of quoting...

>>>> that
>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>>>>>> ok, after a reply of Stefano Stabellini seems that xen disk
>> unplug

coupled with the result of poor mail clients that don't know how to
properly reflow lines when quoting...


>> Once you enable PV functionality, the IDE ports stop working; device
>> reset disables the PV ring and goes back to IDE mode. No hard disk
>> suddenly disappearing from the machine, no image corruption if the IDE
>> device is written to before enabling PV, etc.
>>
> 
> That's not sufficient though. The IDE device must not be enumerated by the OS 
> and, in Windows at least, that enumeration occurs before the PV frontend has 
> started up.

...all before getting to the real new content of the message?  It is not
only okay to trim message, but actually encouraged on technical lists,
so that you aren't wasting reader's time.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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