Re: [Qemu-devel] libguestfs now uses virtio-scsi, supports large numbers of disks

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> I switched libguestfs over to using virtio-scsi.  One immediate
> benefit is support for large numbers of disks: up to 255 because we're
> using 1 target / disk and we reserve one disk for the appliance, in
> theory more could be supported if we used LUNs.

Cool, thanks for sharing!  Does libguestfs hotplug LUNS/targets?

Cong and Wan Seng are implementing guest driver and QEMU-side changes
so the guest receives notifications of hotplugged LUNs.  It's nicer
than manually rescanning the bus from inside the guest.

Stefan