[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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