Re: [RFC PATCH] libxl: basic virtio disk / nic configuration support.

[Wei Liu <liuw@liuw.name>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:05:08PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 
> I think you need to add a new field in libxl_device_disk to specify the
> protocol, something like libxl_disk_protocol, that can be:
> 
> LIBXL_DISK_PROTOCOL_XENVBD
> LIBXL_DISK_PROTOCOL_VIRTIO
> 
> then parse_disk_config can be modified to distinguish xen disks from
> virtio disks and set the field accordingly.

Hmm... wait...

Adding this field is easy. But I don't know if I fully understand your
idea.

I am just about to modify the parser. But looking back your replay,
you are not suggesting adding configuration syntax support in config
file (sort of `disk=["...,protocol=virito"]`).

So essentially the new patch will be of no difference to the original
one. But one advantage is that your plan seems cleaner (not exposing
hacks to other functions).

Do I get your point?

Wei.