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From: | Michael Tokarev |
Subject: | blockdev driver=file,filename=/dev/block forbidden? |
Date: | Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:21:58 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 |
Commit 8d17adf34f501ded65a106572740760f0a75577c "block: remove support for using "file" driver with block/char devices" explicitly forbids usage of file driver for block devices. But _why_? Hasn't we always used file for everything on *nix? And what's the _actual_ difference between file and host_device? Please note this change has been added to qemu long before libvirt has been adapted (I guess there's no released libvirt can be used with qemu 6.0+). Why? Thanks, /mjt
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