Make virtio block driver be the default for the appliance.

Previously this caused a serious performance regression,
but we believe this is now fixed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509383

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e40a042..2fd83fb 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -227,13 +227,13 @@ fi
 dnl Set drive interface used by the guestfs_add_drive{,_ro} calls
 dnl ('-drive ...,if=...' option to qemu).
 dnl
 dnl Set drive interface used by the guestfs_add_drive{,_ro} calls
 dnl ('-drive ...,if=...' option to qemu).
 dnl

-dnl NB. We will change the default in future to virtio, but at the
-dnl moment this causes a performance problem, RHBZ#509383.
+dnl If you encounter performance problems with virtio (RHBZ#509383)
+dnl then try '--with-drive-if=ide'.

 AC_ARG_WITH([drive-if],
         [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-drive-if],
 AC_ARG_WITH([drive-if],
         [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-drive-if],

-          [set default driver (ide|scsi|virtio) @<:@default=ide@:>@])],
+          [set default driver (ide|scsi|virtio) @<:@default=virtio@:>@])],

         [],
         [],

-        [with_drive_if=ide])
+        [with_drive_if=virtio])

 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DRIVE_IF],["$with_drive_if"],[Default drive interface.])
 
 dnl Set interface used by the network.  Normally you should
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DRIVE_IF],["$with_drive_if"],[Default drive interface.])
 
 dnl Set interface used by the network.  Normally you should