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From: Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org>
To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
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Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Bruno" <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
> To: "Bryan Venteicher" <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org>
> Cc: sbruno@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:22:03 PM
> Subject: Re: dev/virtio stuff
> 
> 
> > > > There are already virtio(4) man pages, but it looks like they
> > > > didn't
> > > > get MFC to 9.
> > > 
> > > Want me to shovel them back?
> > > 
> > 
> > Sure. That would be great.
> > 
> 
> Groovy, I'll poke at it directly.
> > > 
> > > Grabbed a verbose dmesg for you here:
> > > 
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/viritio_dmesg.txt
> > > 
> > 
> > >> GEOM: new disk vtbd0
> > 
> > So it seems the VirtIO block device got created just fine.
> > 
> > > Sean
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> Yep, it looks like I have to explicitly *mount* the virtio device for
> it
> to get created in /dev though.  Is that intended?
> 

I don't get what you mean by *mount*. It should be probed at boot
(or kernel module load time) and then GEOM should taste it and you're
off to the races just like every other block device.

Bryan

> Sean
> 
>