On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:45:45AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > This patch adds a new disk type "raw" that can be used twofold: > > 1) To pass arbitrary strings as disk sources to the hypervisor of > choice. This allows to use not-yet-supported storage specification > formats. > > 2) To return backing chain element names that libvirt doesn't yet know > how to parse. Backing chain elements may specify names that libvirt > isn't able to parse. To allow us reporting it back to the user, > unparsable strings will be reported as disk type="raw". > > To avoid attempts to label or do other operations on "raw" disks mark > them as remote and unsupported by the storage driver explicitly. > > Tests for the new format are being added separately. NACK. Arbitrary passthrough or reporting of unsupported features is an explicit non-goal of the libvirt XML. We have QEMU command line passthrough for that goal. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list