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-rw-r--r--hw/block/xen-block.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
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);