Bug 576830

Summary:	RFE: QEMU aio: Support configuration of aio mode against disks
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Ruben Kerkhof <ruben>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
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Description Ruben Kerkhof 2010-03-25 11:53:08 UTC

Description of problem:

Qemu-kvm support the aio=threads|native option.
There's currently no way to use this from libvirt.

It would be great if this could be added to the <driver/> element.

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2011-07-07 14:29:54 UTC

commit 91ef4e05eac546f8ffdb18979cd21e4aee3dcbfd
Author: Matthias Dahl <mdvirt>
Date:   Wed Apr 21 16:28:21 2010 +0200

    qemu aio: add XML parsing
    
    Allows io={threads|native} as an optional attribute to <driver>.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake>