Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

>>  just put it up on a tee: why not use aoe?
>
> I had not even thought of that. How do you recommend setting it up?
>
> ron

i probablly don't know enough about your setup to answer that well.
but here;s an idea nonetheless.

for a single-machine linux-hosted setup, you could run linux vblade
(freshmeat.net/projects/vblade) on the host.  you can use the
instructions in sdaoe(3) to setup, say /dev/sde0 and dd your virtual
hard drive to the aoe storage.  sdaoe provides you with a standard
devsd interface to aoe storage so fdisk, prep and friends will not
know the difference.  there is also a quick example of the plan9.ini
variables
needed to boot directly to aoe:
	aoeif=ether0 ether1
	aoedev=e!#æ/aoe/42.0	# shelf.slot
i suppose that instead of changing your fossil/venti drive configuration
drive letters, you could disable the disk emulation in the guest and tell
sdaoe to take over that letter.  but i've never tried that, so it might not
work for reasons i'm refusing to remember.

(if the disk image is just a plan file on the linux side, linux vblade will
be happy to serve it as-is with no modifications required.)

while on the topic, i should mention that there is a plan 9 vblade
/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/vblade.  but really, go buy coraid stuff.
forget this vblade nonsense! ☺

- erik