From 1898293990702c5601e225dac9afd2402fc46e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony PERARD Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:34:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] xen-block: Use specific blockdev driver ... when a xen-block backend instance is created via xenstore. Following 8d17adf34f50 ("block: remove support for using "file" driver with block/char devices"), using the "file" blockdev driver for everything doesn't work anymore, we need to use the "host_device" driver when the disk image is a block device and "file" driver when it is a regular file. Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD Acked-by: Paul Durrant Message-Id: <20210430163432.468894-1-anthony.perard@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD --- hw/block/xen-block.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/block/xen-block.c b/hw/block/xen-block.c index 83754a4344..674953f1ad 100644 --- a/hw/block/xen-block.c +++ b/hw/block/xen-block.c @@ -728,6 +728,8 @@ static XenBlockDrive *xen_block_drive_create(const char *id, XenBlockDrive *drive = NULL; QDict *file_layer; QDict *driver_layer; + struct stat st; + int rc; if (params) { char **v = g_strsplit(params, ":", 2); @@ -761,7 +763,17 @@ static XenBlockDrive *xen_block_drive_create(const char *id, file_layer = qdict_new(); driver_layer = qdict_new(); - qdict_put_str(file_layer, "driver", "file"); + rc = stat(filename, &st); + if (rc) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Could not stat file '%s'", filename); + goto done; + } + if (S_ISBLK(st.st_mode)) { + qdict_put_str(file_layer, "driver", "host_device"); + } else { + qdict_put_str(file_layer, "driver", "file"); + } + qdict_put_str(file_layer, "filename", filename); g_free(filename);