Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to pass-through SCSI commands

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 03/03/16 13:03, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Paul Durrant writes ("RE: [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to 
> pass-through SCSI commands"):
>> Actually, that's quite desirable. The existing driver is actually a
>> SCSI HBA driver (because that's all you can write is you use thr
>> Windows STORPORT wrapper... which you need to if you want to pass
>> WHQL) so making it use a PV scsi protocol would probably make it
>> smaller since all the scsi <-> blkif translation code could be
>> ripped out and all the stuff to synthesize INQUIRY responses based
>> on vbd data in xenstore could go away too.
> 
> Do non-Linux hosts have something like LIO ?

Are there any pvSCSI backends other than the one in Linux?


Juergen


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