On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:37 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of > > host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already > > present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device > > infrastructure. > > Another benefit of SCSI: when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel > switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt > disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver. but there's a generic one for that: iSCSI so in theory you only need to provide a network driver then ;)
