Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation

[Kamala Narasimhan <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Shall we pre-deprecate the someprefix: along with all the
> tap:{aio,ioemu,FOO}: stuff while we are at this? IOW the syntax we want
> to actually support going forward would be:
>       (raw|vhd|qcow2|qcow):/path/to/something
> with the toolstack being at liberty to best decide how to achieve the
> necessary format support? (optionally raw: as the default). All the rest
> of the format is really semantically meaningless and supported only for
> compatibility with existing configuration files.
>

That sure does simply things!  When we have multiple backends that work with 
different file formats for users to choose from, we can revisit this.

Kamala
 
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