Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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 ;) Talk about lots of overhead :) OTOH, I bet that T10 is acting at high speed, right this second, to form a committee, and multiple sub-committees, to standardize SCSI transported over XenBus. SXP anyone? :) Jeff
