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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"? |
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Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:29:55 +0200 |
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Dave Seddon <address@hidden> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
> Overall it sounds like supporting this is capability would be fairly
> easy. However, Sadly for me it sounds like this won't be useful to
> people generally unless they are trying to virtulize something that
> relies on these codes.
>
> Answers to:
> ------------------------------------------------
> Paulo:
>
> Statement: Here we should perhaps try to improve the ATA emulation.
> Response: It would probably be helpful to improve both SCSI and ATA
> emulation.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Markus:
>
> Question: That's not what I see. What version of QEMU are you using?
> Answer: Using current package for Ubuntu 0.12.5 (that's probably a bad
> word, give all the @redhat emails. sorry :) ) What do you see? I did
> download the source and check, hence the grep snippet.
We take patches even from Ubuntu users ;)
0.12.5 is pretty old.
> Statement: No. Hardcoded to "QEMU HARDDISK ".
> Response: Why couldn't this be a configuration item?
>
> Thanks for your reference to: docs/qdev-device-use.txt
> And also for the 'scsi-hd' example. I can't see why, if the
> "serial=S,ver=V" options are supported, that "model=" couldn't also be
> added. - I will try this.
Use "ver" as example to follow. "serial" carries some backward
compatibility baggage.
> Statement: Doubt it would be difficult. But would it be useful?
> Agree with what your saying about specific calls, however, in my case
> I'm trying to run a vendor supplied image which "only supports" certain
> disks. It is currently borking because it doesn't like the disks. I
> strongly doubt it does any disk specific calls. They are doing this to
> stop us installing disks bigger than 500GB, for example. I'm trying to
> make "appliance" software run virtually.
Ha.
I don't know wether a patch would be accepted, but there's just one way
to find out.
[...]
- [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?, Dave Seddon, 2011/06/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/06/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?, Markus Armbruster, 2011/06/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?, Dave Seddon, 2011/06/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?,
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