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The libxl driver currently sets the disk backend to
LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_TAP when <driver name='file'> is specified
in the <disk> config. qdisk should be prefered with this
configuration, otherwise existing configuration such as the
following, which worked with the old Xen driver, will not work
with the libxl driver
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='file'/>
<source file='/path/to/some/iso'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
In addition, tap performs poorly compared to qdisk.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>