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From: | Thomas Huth |
Subject: | Re: [qemu-web PATCH v2] Add virtio-blk and virtio-scsi configuration post |
Date: | Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:57:26 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.3 |
On 14/01/2021 17.05, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 03:04:20PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:On 05/01/2021 11.49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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+Applications that send SCSI commands are better served by the virtio-scsi +device, which has full SCSI support. SCSI passthrough was removed from the +Linux virtio-blk driver in v5.6 in favor of using virtio-scsi.Since "passthrough" sounds like a passthrough of real hardware devices, I'd maybe rather say something like: The original virtio-blk devices also included the possibility to handle SCSI commands, but this features was removed from the Linux driver in v5.6 in favor of using virtio-scsi (and is also not available for modern virtio-1.0 devices anymore).Guest SCSI commands were passed through to the physical LUN but what you described sounds more like emulating SCSI commands, which is not what the feature did.
Ok, I likely just understood that feature in the wrong way. Looking at the virtio spec, it just talks about the possibility to send SCSI commands to the virtio-blk device, but looking at the implementation in QEMU, it seems more like the way you described, so never mind my comment.
Thomas
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