Features/VirtioSCSI

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Overview

A virtio storage interface for efficient I/O that overcomes virtio-blk limitations and supports advanced SCSI hardware.

Status

Future tasks

  • Pick up vhost-scsi work again:
    • Port QEMU hw/virtio-scsi.c vhost-scsi support onto latest code; add QEMU Object Model (QOM) support
    • to the vhost-scsi device
    • Port LIO vhost-scsi code onto latest lio.git code and spec
    • Ensure vhost-scsi I/O still works
    • Design libvirt integration for LIO
  • QEMU SCSI target:
    • Add support for WRITE SAME commands
    • Add support for rerror/werror to scsi-generic
  • Complete virtio-scsi spec implementation:
    • Add support for hotplug events
    • Add support for asynchronous media change notifications

Features

  • /dev/sda inside guest
  • Multiple LUNs per PCI adapter, solves virtio-blk 1:1 scalability problem
  • SCSI passthrough (tape, CD burning, ...)

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