Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 06/28/2014 08:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:35PM +0200, jgross@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Introduces the XEN pvSCSI backend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a XEN domU
> > to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that domU. The SCSI commands
> > are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver domain (usually Dom0) which is
> > owner of the physical device. This allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a
> > XEN domU.
> This should be written against the generic target core infrastructure
> in drivers/target, instead of introducing another simplistic pass
> through only SCSI target.
> .
Just to be sure: you mean something like a combined version of
tcm_vhost and virtio_scsi?


Juergen

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