In particular if I have a .qcow file, I would probably prefer to use Qemu qdisk to serve it up. If I would like to import data in dom0, I need to fall back to a block device.
Alternatively: the tool in dom0 which needs the block device could run the block attach plugin?
Alternatively: we could ban blkfront's in dom0 (but this causes problems with suspend/resume and pygrub on file SRs)
In particular if I have a .qcow file, I would probably prefer to use Qemu qdisk to serve it up. If I would like to import data in dom0, I need to fall back to a block device.
Alternatively: the tool in dom0 which needs the block device could run the block attach plugin?
Alternatively: we could ban blkfront's in dom0 (but this causes problems with suspend/resume and pygrub on file SRs)