On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 17:07 +0000, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > libxl__device_disk_set_backend is the guy to look at if you are > > interested how the selection happens. > > > > After taking a peek, agreed that LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKNOWN is a better > backend default. I'll leave the format default of LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_RAW > to be consistent with $xen-src/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt. Makes sense, libxl deliberately does not do format detection because it can be dangerous (since a guest admin with a raw disk can write a qcow snapshot header to the device pointing to /etc/shadow etc). Ian. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list