package mirage-block-xen

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MirageOS block driver for Xen that implements the blkfront/back protocol

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mirage-block-xen-2.1.1.tbz
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v2.1.1 (2022-04-19)

  • Adapt to cstruct.6.0.0 and fmt.0.8.7 (@hannesm, #91)

v2.1.0 (2022-02-01)

  • Lint the OPAM file (@hannesm, #88)

  • Replace OS by Xen_os (@dinosaure, #89)

v2.0.0 (2020-10-21)

  • Adapt to mirage-xen 6.0.0 API changes (Solo5 based Xen PVH, #87 @mato)

v1.7.0 (2019-11-01)

  • Adapt to mirage-xen 5.0.0 API changes (#86 @hannesm)

  • Adapt to mriage-block 2.0.0 API changs (#86 @hannesm)

v1.6.2 (2019-06-26)

  • Use mirage-xen 4.0 Os_xen module (#81 @TheLortex)

  • generate exact Merlin files by rearranging build (#82 @avsm)

1.6.1 (2019-04-02):

  • use new grant API from mirage-xen (@yomimono, @talex5)

  • several code cleanups and removals (@yomimono, @emillon)

  • remove ppx_cstruct direct dependency (@TheLortex)

1.6.0 (2019-01-11):

  • Port to dune from jbuilder (@avsm)

1.5.4 (2017-07-05):

  • Use ppx_cstruct directly instead of the cstruct.ppx compat package, which makes it easier for jbuilder subdirectory embedding.

1.5.3 (2017-06-16):

  • Add missing dependency on io-page-xen

1.5.2 (2017-06-11):

  • Add missing dependency on xenstore.client

1.5.1 (2017-05-30):

  • Switch to jbuilder and topkg

  • Update to shared-memory-ring-lwt

1.5.0 (2017-01-24)

  • Build with MirageOS 3, and don't build against earlier versions

  • support and test compiler versions 4.03 and 4.04

  • remove unused id type

1.4.0 (2016-03-13):

  • Remove dependency on camlp4; use ppx instead

  • opam: now pass lint check

  • use logs rather than printf

  • blkfront: serialise calls to connect

  • blkfront: strip deprecated prefixes like aio: from params keys

1.3.1 (2015-03-07):

  • Add an explicit connect to the interface signature (#35)

1.3.0 (2015-01-29):

  • Update to io-page.1.4.0 interface.

  • Add an opam 1.2 file for more convenient development.

  • Simplify travis configuration via centralised scripts.

1.2.0 (2014-10-03):

  • blkback: add 'force_close' to more forcibly tear down the device

  • blkback: make 'destroy' idempotent

  • blkback: measure ring utilisation; segments per request; total requests and responses (ok and error)

  • blkback: support indirect descriptors (i.e. large block sizes)

  • blkfront: if the 'connect' string is at all ambiguous, fail rather than risk using the wrong disk

  • blkfront: use indirect segments if available

1.1.0 (2014-01-30):

  • blkback: functorise over Activations.

  • Depend on xen-grant and xen-event libraries rather than xenctrl.

  • Remove OS module, depend on io-page (no -unix or -xen).

  • Only use the high-level Activations.after interface.

  • blkfront: allow 'connect' to take '51712' (bus slot) or 'xvda' or '/dev/xvda'

  • blkback: improve performance through request merging

  • blkback: functorise over Activations, xenstore and backing store

  • blkback: add the toolstack-level device create/destroy functions

1.0.0 (2013-12-10):

  • Add ISC copyrights everywhere.

  • Indent code with ocp-indent.

0.5.0 (2013-12-08):

  • Block.connect: if we don't recognise the id, default to the first available disk.

0.4.0 (2013-12-08):

  • implement new mirage-types BLOCK interface

0.2.5 (2013-11-10):

  • fix build against cstruct.0.8.0

  • blkfront write_page only needs to grant read access to the backend driver

0.2.4 (2013-10-13):

  • fix reading non-page aligned sectors

0.2.3 (2013-10-05):

  • add Travis continuous integration scripts.

  • use new Activations.after interface

0.2.2 (2013-08-08):

  • update to mirage-platform 0.9.4

0.2.0 (2013-07-17):

  • blkback has significantly increased performance through mapping all requests on the ring simultaneously

0.1.3 (2013-07-14):

  • 32-bit guest support fixed

  • fixed critical bug in previous version which caused pages to be mapped with the wrong protection flags, leading to immediate segfaults on write

0.1.2 (2013-07-04):

  • updated following mirage-xen Gnttab API change

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