Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 14:22 +0100, Dave Scott wrote:
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>>> On 25/04/13 13:43, Ian Campbell wrote:
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>>> It looks like we could define a "qdisk" driverName.
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>> Yes, I think this would work. WRT to your comment below it looks like
>> other libvirt drivers call this driver "qemu".
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> IMO, we should just extend the above to map driverName 'qemu' to backend
> 'qdisk'.  But what about the formats?  I though qdisk could handle all
> of them, particularly with qemu-upstream, even vmdk?
>   

Something like the attached, which seems to work well for me when
specifying driverName = qemu, e.g.

    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/xen/images/sles11sp2-pv/disk0.raw'/>
      <target dev='xvda' bus='xen'/>
    </disk>

Regards,
Jim