On 17/11/2010, at 5:38 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
于 2010年11月16日 21:30, Chris Phillips 写道:
> Hi,
>
> Simple question that I can't track down any notable discussion about,
> let alone an answer...
>
> Is it possible to define what the "default" nic and storage types are?
> I am deploying images out of cobbler using koan and all of them are
> running virtio wherever applicable, but this is not the default, and
> at present there is no way within koan or cobbler to define what type
> of devices they should be. I've hard coded this device type
> declaration into koan, but don't like that in the slightest, and would
> typically expect to be able to just set "default=virtio" in a libvirt
> config file somewhere.
>
> I fear I'm actually not missing anything and it's just hard coded for
> the most compatible device with no recourse to override it.
>
It seems reasonable to add a new preference in "/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf".
Now libvirt use "ide" as the bus type for disk device if it fails on
the series detections.
Might also be well placed as something in the "to be written" user
preferences file too, so each user can specific their own defaults.