weizhouapache commented on PR #14247:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/14247#issuecomment-6132154269

   I have some concerns about honoring "virtio-blk" as a separate disk 
controller option.
   
   In libvirt, "virtio" is the disk bus, and the corresponding device is 
already a VirtIO block device ("virtio-blk"). This is similar to how a VirtIO 
NIC is represented by a "virtio" interface model, corresponding to a 
"virtio-net" device.
   
   As a result, the existing CloudStack "virtio" disk controller option already 
maps to a VirtIO block device. With this change, "virtio" and "virtio-blk" 
would effectively expose the same device model, with the main difference being 
that "virtio-blk" enables "discard='unmap'".
   
   I think this could be confusing for users, because the controller option 
appears to describe the device type, while it also implicitly controls discard 
behavior.
   
   Could we instead keep "virtio" as the controller option and handle 
discard/unmap as a separate configuration? This would make the distinction 
between the disk device model and its discard capability clearer.


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