(LD_PRELOAD), this can sometimes be used to use standard file
utilities on VHDs.
+Package: blktap
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libvhd (= ${binary:Version})
+Recommends: blktap-dkms
+Suggests: vhd-utils
+Description: Blktap userspace backend and drivers.
+ Blktap creates kernel block devices which realize I/O requests to
+ processes implementing virtual hard disk images entirely in user
+ space.
+ .
+ Typical disk images may be implemented as files, in memory, or
+ stored on other hosts across the network. The image drivers included
+ with tapdisk can map disk I/O to sparse file images accessed through
+ Linux DIO/AIO and VHD images with snapshot functionality.
+ .
+ This packages includes the control utilities needed to create
+ destroy and manipulate devices ('tap-ctl'), the 'tapdisk' driver
+ program to perform tap devices I/O, and a number of image drivers.
+
Package: blktap-dev
Section: devel
Architecture: any