Re: [PATCH for 4.5] libxl: Tell qemu to use raw format when using a tapdisk

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 16:47 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:48:21PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 14:04 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> > At the moment libxl unconditinally passes the underlying file format
> >> > to qemu in the device string.  However, when tapdisk is in use,
> >> > tapdisk handles the underlying format and presents qemu with
> >> > effectively a raw disk.  When qemu looks at the tapdisk block device
> >> > and doesn't find the image format it was looking for, it will fail.
> >> >
> >> > This effectively means that tapdisk cannot be used with HVM domains at
> >> > the moment except for raw files.
> >> >
> >> > Instead, if we're using a tapdisk backend, tell qemu to use a raw file
> >> > format.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> >
> > Release-Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 
> This doesn't seem to have been applied yet.

Now applied, nuking the extra blank line which way noticed on the way.

Ian.