Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 35/35] scsi-disk: add scsi-block for device passthrough

2011-10-24 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 13.10.2011 13:04, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: scsi-block is a new device that supports device passthrough of Linux block devices (i.e. /dev/sda, not /dev/sg0). It uses SG_IO for commands other than I/O commands, and regular AIO read/writes for I/O commands. Besides being simpler to configure

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 35/35] scsi-disk: add scsi-block for device passthrough

2011-10-24 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/24/2011 05:28 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: scsi-block is a new device that supports device passthrough of Linux block devices (i.e. /dev/sda, not /dev/sg0). It uses SG_IO for commands other than I/O commands, and regular AIO read/writes for I/O commands. Besides being simpler to configure

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 35/35] scsi-disk: add scsi-block for device passthrough

2011-10-24 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 24.10.2011 17:28, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: On 10/24/2011 05:28 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: scsi-block is a new device that supports device passthrough of Linux block devices (i.e. /dev/sda, not /dev/sg0). It uses SG_IO for commands other than I/O commands, and regular AIO read/writes for I/O

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 35/35] scsi-disk: add scsi-block for device passthrough

2011-10-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
scsi-block is a new device that supports device passthrough of Linux block devices (i.e. /dev/sda, not /dev/sg0). It uses SG_IO for commands other than I/O commands, and regular AIO read/writes for I/O commands. Besides being simpler to configure (no mapping required to scsi-generic device