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Under development. Not ready for real-world use yet.
* Virtio device specification
** Patch on mailing list
** http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization/14900
* Linux guest driver
** Patch on mailing list
** https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/5/75
* QEMU hardware emulation using SCSI emulation
** Patches on mailing list
** http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-01/msg02012.html
* QEMU hardware emulation using vhost-scsi
** (Stalled) work-in-progress, contact Stefan
** http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/stefanha.git/shortlog/refs/heads/virtio-scsi
* Libvirt support
** Patches on mailing list
** http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-January/msg00537.html


= Features =
= Features =

Revision as of 16:01, 13 February 2012

Overview

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

Status

Features

  • /dev/sda inside guest
  • Multiple LUNs per PCI adapter, solves virtio-blk 1:1 scalability problem
  • SCSI passthrough

Links

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