Local disks (sata / sas) passed through directly to VM:
scsi_hw:virtio_scsi_pci (or _single, gives same issue with 4.4)
scsiX: /dev/disk/by-id/disk_name,size=XYZ
In guest operating system any FS on this device can go: etx3, etx4, xfs, btrfs
(this is what I mean by passing on disk directly to...