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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have a KVM qcow2 image to be launched on a KVM host. From Dashboard, I don’t find a way to specify the disk type for a new instance as IDE. The instance was launched with a virtio disk type.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>virsh dumpxml <kvm_vm_name><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>shows the following.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <disk type='file' device='disk'><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <source file='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/2f317b2e-f3b8-40cd-ba79-402231ccee51/disk'/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <target dev='vda' bus=<b>'virtio'</b>/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </disk><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I want it to be <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <target dev=’vda’ bus=<b>’ide’</b>/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The libvirt.xml under data/nova/instances/<image_id><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <disk type="file" device="disk"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2" cache="none"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <source file="/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/2f317b2e-f3b8-40cd-ba79-402231ccee51/disk"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <target bus="<b>virtio</b>" dev="vda"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </disk><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I want it to be <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <target bus=”<b>ide</b>” dev=vda”/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I could manually change libvirt.xml and virsh edit <kvm_vm_name> as mentioned above. But I want to be able to do it either from Dashboard GUI or commands such as glance or nova.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any pointers on workarounds / solution on this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pattabi<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>