tapdisk, part of blktap, links against libcrypto. tapdisk includes
GPLv2 (tapaio.c) and other licensed code (block-qcow.c). The license
of OpenSSL is considered incompatible with the GPL by many
people. This patch changes them to link against libgcrypt, which is
LGPL.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
This patch adds support for the qcow2 image format to blktap. It
consists mostly of qemu code, adapted to the blktap interfaces.
Snapshots and compressed images are supported.
The qcow2 driver may be used by either specifying tap:qcow2 or by
using tap:qcow which will detect that you have a version 2 image and
will call the qcow2 driver.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>
Fixes correctness issues with xenstored and gcc-4.2.
Original patch by Charles Coffing <ccoffing@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
blktap requires a xen specific kernel AIO ABI which has been vetoed by
upstream in favour of another approach. Rather than include this ABI,
Fedora has been carrying a patch which makes tap:aio use a thread to
poll for aio events and notify the main thread via a pipe.
The upstream approach of allowing io_getevents() poll normal file
descriptors via epoll is still progressing:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/16
but when that does make it upstream, blktap will require significant
re-working to use that approach.
In the meantime, here's a patch which uses the poll-in-a-thread
approach only if AIO poll support isn't available. It also hides the
details behind a simple abstraction and makes both tap:aio and
tap:qcow use it.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
The only non-obvious change here is in tools/xenfb/Makefile. This now picks up
the headers it requires via the copy in tools/libxc.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Enables tapdisk to chain an arbitrary number of VDIs, propagating reads of
holes in children to their parent images. Introduces two new functions to the
tapdisk interface to facilitate this. Modifies the QCoW plugin to take
advantage of these changes, thus providing support for arbitrarily long chains
of QCoW image types.
Keir Fraser
Keir Fraser
kfraser@localhost.localdomain
Ian Campbell
Jake Wires
kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
jchesterfield@wicket.uk.xensource.com
chris@kneesaa.uk.xensource.com
jchesterfield@dhcp92.uk.xensource.com