From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
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
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Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:58:41PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>   =

>> Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
>>     =

>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where/how to set the default libvirt blktap "driver na=
me" 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=3D2 --disk /var/lib/lib=
virt/images/blktaptest01.img,size=3D8 --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=3D8,driver_name=
=3Dtap2
>>
>>     =

>
> 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=3Dtap2 .. =

>   =


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