Re: [PATCH 2/3] qemu: Replace usb-storage with usb-bot

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 09:13:11 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 10:10:53AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 09:05:28 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 02:57:41PM +0900, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> > > > usb-storage is a compound device that automatically creates a USB mass
> > > > storage device and a SCSI device as its backend. Unfortunately it lacks
> > > > some configuration options that are usually present with a SCSI device,
> > > > and cannot represent CD-ROM in particular.
> > > > 
> > > > Replace usb-storage with usb-bot, which can be combined with a manually
> > > > created SCSI device. libvirt will configure the SCSI device in a way
> > > > identical with how QEMU does for usb-storage except that now it respects
> > > > a configuration option to represent CD-ROM.
> > > 
> > > Is this change compatible for QEMU's VMState aka migration ABI compatible ?
> > 
> > Based on my tests so far it seems compatible in terms of VMstate and
> > also guest ABI at least to the first glance (lsusb, lsscsi -v etc) seems
> > identical at least for the default 'read-write'/non-cdrom disk.
> > 
> > I didn't yet test migrating with a cdrom to an older daemon though,
> > which based on the above paragraph should have guest-visible difference.
> 
> Any such configuratin of the latter is arguably a bug though ? It was
> never presenting a cdrom, and that we allowed it was just a sign of
> missing XML validation surely ?

Yes that could be the case. Although it is possible that it's even a
regression from switching to blockdev as I've seen claims that usb cdrom
did behave correctly at that point; but I didn't care to validate that
for myself given how long ago it was that we switched to blockdev.




[Index of Archives]     [Virt Tools]     [Libvirt Users]     [Lib OS Info]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]

  Powered by Linux