Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw: Add support for new LSI Logic devices.

[Anthony Liguori]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> Il 12/09/2012 15:58, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> Why would someone use this verses megasas vs. LSI vs virtio-scsi?
>
> LSI is dead.  Compare it to IDE.
>
> virtio-scsi has the highest performance, but it is not supported on all
> guests.  Compare it to virtio-blk.
>
> This vs. megasas is a good question; both can be compared to AHCI, they
> have good performance and have the advantage of compatibility with real
> hardware.  If this had gone in first, I would probably have rejected
> megasas, but this has the advantage of being used in VMware and
> VirtualBox.  Plus, unlike megasas Don said he'd work on SeaBIOS support,
> so it has further merit.

Okay.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo