Re: [libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: prefer qdisk for <driver name='file'>
Ian Campbell wrote:
On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 15:07 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> The libxl driver currently sets the disk backend to
> LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_TAP when <driver name='file'> is specified
> in the <disk> config. qdisk should be prefered with this
> configuration, otherwise existing configuration such as the
> following, which worked with the old Xen driver, will not work
> with the libxl driver
>
OOI why not let libxl pick the most appropriate backend for (most of)
these alternatives?
I think the libvirt approach is to be a bit more explicit, instead of
relying on hypervisor defaults that might change over time. I'm quite
sure this is the approach danpb has always advocated.
Regards,
Jim