On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:31:29AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:00:41AM -0400, john cooper wrote: > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:06:57PM -0400, john cooper wrote: > >>> [Resend of earlier patch: 1/2 rebased to qemu-kvm, > >>> 2/2 minor tweak] > >> > >> patch 1/2 seems to be missing. > > It is in the kvm and qemu-devel list archives: > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/maillist.html > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-05/msg00661.html > > Ah, it got posted as reply to the previous submission, not with this > one. > > >> So why can't we re-use the existing interfaces instead of inventing a > >> new one? > > I'm unclear to what specifically you're referring -- the > > ioctl() used to retrieve the serial number in the guest? > > Well, there's not specific ioctl to get a serial number for scsi, but > given that we now have SG_IO passthrough in virtio-blk it should be easy > enough to provide inquiry data and the device identification VPD page > by that way. Not sure how it's handled for ide, maybe that way > is even easier. > IDE has "identify" command which return various info including 20 byte serial number. -- Gleb. -- 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
