Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: fix disk detach when <driver> not specified

When a user does not explicitly set a <driver> in the disk config, libvirt defers selection of a default to libxl. This approach works fine when starting a domain with such configuration or attaching a disk to a running domain. But when detaching such a disk, libxl will fail with "unrecognized disk backend type: 0". libxl makes no attempt to recalculate a default backend (driver) on detach and simply fails when uninitialized. This patch updates the libvirt disk config with the backend selected by libxl when starting a domain or attaching a disk to a running domain. Another benefit of this approach is that the live XML is also updated with the backend driver selected by libxl. Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com&gt; --- src/libxl/libxl_conf.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/libxl/libxl_conf.h | 4 ++++ src/libxl/libxl_domain.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/libxl/libxl_driver.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c index b5186f2..6ef7570 100644 --- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c @@ -851,6 +851,7 @@ libxlMakeDisk(virDomainDiskDefPtr l_disk, libxl_device_disk *x_disk) * xl-disk-configuration.txt in the xen documentation and let * libxl pick a suitable backend. */ + virDomainDiskSetFormat(l_disk, VIR_STORAGE_FILE_RAW); x_disk->format = LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_RAW; x_disk->backend = LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKNOWN;

} @@ -913,6 +914,38 @@ libxlMakeDiskList(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config) return -1; }