[config-review] VIRTIO_SCSI
Serge Hallyn
serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Fri Jun 1 13:42:49 UTC 2012
Quoting Stefan Bader (stefan.bader at canonical.com):
>
> Looking at this option I gathered the following info:
>
> - it is new with 3.4 and adds a guest side driver for a virtual host
> bus adapter.
> - it is flagged experimental
> - to be of use it would require qemu/kvm support (-device options)
> which currently does not seem to be present. libvirt seems to
> have code to make use of the feature but that will not work until
> qemu is ready.
For what it's worth, it looks like virtio-scsi support should be in 1.1,
which I'm hoping to get into q.
> So at the moment it feels like it should be turned off, except if we want to be
> ready in case qemu in quantal suddenly gets the feature. The risk for =m would
> likely be low as the driver looks for a special pci subid which would not be
> present.
>
> -Stefan
>
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