Re: [libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: prefer qdisk for <driver name='file'>

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, 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 > > <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> > <driver name='file'/> > <source file='/path/to/some/iso'/> > <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> > <readonly/> > </disk> > > In addition, tap performs poorly compared to qdisk. > > Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com&gt; > Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini(a)eu.citrix.com&gt;