The current formulation can lead people to believe SCSI
controllers only allow the virtio-scsi model, but really the
only difference is that you have to use model='virtio-scsi'
where you would use model='virtio' for another device.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/formatdomain.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index dd197d8f6a..af540391db 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -3428,8 +3428,10 @@ machine types, accept the following ``model`` values:
While the information outlined above applies to most virtio devices, there are a
few exceptions:
-- for SCSI controllers, ``virtio-scsi`` must be used instead of ``virtio`` for
- backwards compatibility reasons;
+- for SCSI controllers, there is no ``virtio`` model available due to
+ historical reasons: use ``virtio-scsi`` instead, which behaves the same as
+ ``virtio`` does for other devices. Both ``virtio-transitional`` and
+ ``virtio-non-transitional`` work with SCSI controllers;
- some devices, such as GPUs and input devices (keyboard, tablet and mouse),
are only defined in the virtio 1.0 spec and as such don't have a transitional
variant: the only accepted model is ``virtio``, which will result in a
--
2.26.2
