Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver. | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:40:56 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:37 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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.
but there's a generic one for that: iSCSI so in theory you only need to provide a network driver then ;)
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