On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 15:38:40 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > 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 Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@xxxxxxxxxx>
