The libxl driver currently sets the disk backend to
LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_TAP when <driver name='file'> is specified
in the <disk> config.  qdisk should be prefered with this
configuration, otherwise existing configuration such as the
following, which worked with the old Xen driver, will not work
with the libxl driver

  <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
    <driver name='file'/>
    <source file='/path/to/some/iso'/>
    <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
    <readonly/>
  </disk>

In addition, tap performs poorly compared to qdisk.