Christoph Hellwig wrote:
[had the qemu list address wrong the first time, reply to this message, not the previous if you were on Cc] Add support for SG_IO passthru (packet commands) to the virtio-blk backend. Conceptually based on an older patch from Hannes Reinecke but largely rewritten to match the code structure and layering in virtio-blk. Note that currently we issue the hose SG_IO synchronously. We could easily switch to async I/O, but that would required either bloating the VirtIOBlockReq by the size of struct sg_io_hdr or an additional memory allocation for each SG_IO request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
So practically speaking, what can you do with this? Should we be handling some SCSI cmds internally to QEMU (like eject operations) and supporting media=cdrom in -drive for if=virtio?
On a related topic, should we switch /dev/vdX to be /dev/sdX? Regards, Anthony Liguori -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
