From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: libvirt and virt-manager default blktap driver name for file images, tap vs tap2?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:41:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B12C32.8010202@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130607002052.GX11427@reaktio.net>
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:58:41PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>
>> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where/how to set the default libvirt blktap "driver name" for disk image files?
>>>
>>> If I have "blktap" module loaded in dom0 kernel, and I do this:
>>>
>>> virt-install -d -n blktaptest01 -r 2048 --vcpus=2 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/blktaptest01.img,size=8 --vnc -p -l "http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/6.4/os/x86_64"
>>>
>>>
>> Does it work if you specify the driver name in the diskopts? E.g.
>>
>> --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/blktaptest01.img,size=8,driver_name=tap2
>>
>>
>
> Yep, that works.
>
> I was mostly wondering how to specify/change the *default*,
> so that both virt-install and virt-manager work without specifying driver_name=tap2 ..
>
Ahh.
> Any ideas about that?
>
No, but I'm not that familiar with virt-{install,manager} code. Seems
like a good question for virt-tools-list@redhat.com.
Regards,
Jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-07 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-06 10:00 libvirt and virt-manager default blktap driver name for file images, tap vs tap2? Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-06-06 18:58 ` Jim Fehlig
2013-06-07 0:20 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-06-07 0:41 ` Jim Fehlig [this message]
2013-06-07 18:04 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
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