[libvirt] virsh attach-disk using files and KVM

Currently virsh attach-disk interface only accepts 'file' or 'tap' for driver type when attaching files as disks. One can succesfully attach a file as disk with: virsh attach-disk <vm> <file> <drive> --driver file --type disk which generates the following xml which is passed to libvirt: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='file' type='raw'/> <source file='/images/test02.img'/> <target dev='vdc' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </disk> Now, if you shutdown the guest and restart, libvirt complains that the driver type 'file' isn't supported. This is from src/qemu/qemu_conf.c:4146 where if the driver name isn't 'qemu' it rejects the configuration. How best to resolve this? Update qemu_conf.c to accept 'file' type? update virsh to allow specifying 'qemu' as a driver type for files? -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh(a)us.ibm.com