Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:37:15 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver. |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of > host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already > present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device > infrastructure.
Another benefit of SCSI: when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.
Jeff
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