Add the documentation about the example of using virtio-blk driver to pass the zoned block devices through to the guest. Signed-off-by: Sam Li <faithilikerun@xxxxxxxxx> --- docs/devel/zoned-storage.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/devel/zoned-storage.rst b/docs/devel/zoned-storage.rst index 6a36133e51..05ecf3729c 100644 --- a/docs/devel/zoned-storage.rst +++ b/docs/devel/zoned-storage.rst @@ -41,3 +41,20 @@ APIs for zoned storage emulation or testing. For example, to test zone_report on a null_blk device using qemu-io is: $ path/to/qemu-io --image-opts -n driver=host_device,filename=/dev/nullb0 -c "zrp offset nr_zones" + +To expose the host's zoned block device through virtio-blk, the command line +can be (includes the -device parameter): + -blockdev node-name=drive0,driver=host_device,filename=/dev/nullb0, + cache.direct=on \ + -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive0 +Or only use the -drive parameter: + -driver driver=host_device,file=/dev/nullb0,if=virtio,cache.direct=on + +Additionally, QEMU has several ways of supporting zoned storage, including: +(1) Using virtio-scsi: --device scsi-block allows for the passing through of +SCSI ZBC devices, enabling the attachment of ZBC or ZAC HDDs to QEMU. +(2) PCI device pass-through: While NVMe ZNS emulation is available for testing +purposes, it cannot yet pass through a zoned device from the host. To pass on +the NVMe ZNS device to the guest, use VFIO PCI pass the entire NVMe PCI adapter +through to the guest. Likewise, an HDD HBA can be passed on to QEMU all HDDs +attached to the HBA. -- 2.39.2
