Paolo Bonzini wrote: > James, will you include virtio-scsi in 3.4? The key arguments from my side for inclusion of virtio-scsi are: - Support for SCSI multipathing, which can optionally be done on the host operating system. - We can now use other SCSI(non-block) devices and make them accessible to the guest. For example we were able to virtualize a SCSI FCP tape using virtio-scsi. One of the biggest constraints of virtio-block is that it is limited to block devices, while virtio-scsi presents you with a more generic solution. So I consider virtio-scsi to be the cleaner approach to do virtualization of SCSI commands. This is supported by the fact that virtio-block has a maintenance problem and has to change its protocol from time to time to support new features introduced by a new version of the SCSI standard. So please consider including virtio-scsi into the mainline kernel tree. This is good and conceptually clean code, and it has proven to work very well in our internal testing. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Christian Hoff Student - Applied Computer Science Phone: 49-16098976-950 IBM Deutschland E-Mail: christian.hoff@xxxxxxxxxx Am Fichtenberg 1 71083 Herrenberg Germany IBM Deutschland GmbH / Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Martina Koederitz (Vorsitzende), Reinhard Reschke, Dieter Scholz, Gregor Pillen, Joachim Heel, Christian Noll Sitz der Gesellschaft: Ehningen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 / WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
