Usage:
hdtype=ide|ahci (default=ide)
If hdtype=ahci adds ich9 disk controller in ahci mode and uses it with
upstream qemu to emulate disks instead of ide.
It doesn't support cdroms which still using ide (cdroms will use
"-device ide-cd" as new qemu parameter)
Ahci requires new qemu parameter but for now other emulated disks cases
remains with old ones (I did it in other patch, not needed by this one)
I did it as libxl parameter disabled by default to avoid possible
problems:
- with save/restore/migration (restoring with ahci a domU that was with
ide instead)
- windows < 8 without pv drivers (a registry key change is needed for
AHCI<->IDE change FWIK to avoid possible blue screen)
- windows XP or older that many not support ahci by default.
Setting AHCI with libxl parameter and default to disabled seems the best
solution.
AHCI increase hvm domUs boot performance. On linux hvm domU I saw up to
only 20% of the previous total boot time, whereas boot time decrease a
lot on W7 domUs for most of boots I have done. Small difference in boot
time compared to ide mode on W8 and newer (probably other xen
improvements or fixes are needed not ahci related)
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- adjust name of LIBXL_HAVE #define as discussed on list,
fixup pod syntax in xl.cfg.pod.5 ]
Document and implement a new option that permits disk backends which
would otherwise have to avoid O_DIRECT (because of the network memory
lifetime bug) to use it anyway. This is:
direct-io-safe in the xl domain disk config specification
direct_io_safe in the libxl disk API
direct-io-safe in the backend xenstore interface
Add a reference to xen/include/public/io/blkif.h in
docs/misc/vbd-interface.txt.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@paradoxo.org>
Fabio Fantoni
Stefano Stabellini
Ian Campbell
Ian Jackson