Re: [Xen-devel] libvirt and virt-manager default blktap driver name for file images, tap vs tap2?

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxx

Regards,
Jim


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