Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] NVMe: Initial commit to add an NVM Express device

[Kevin Wolf]

Hi Keith,

Am 08.12.2012 20:20, schrieb Keith Busch:
>> IIUC from the website above, NVMe is to be used with SSDs?  It would be
>> good to add to the commit message how to actually use the device
>> command-line-wise beyond the obvious -device nvme: I did not spot on
>> brief sight where you expose a bus to add drives (nor a special IF_*
>> interface type to assign to a drive), so others might wonder as well.
> 
> Actually the nvme device _is_ the SSD. The emulated controller here
> creates files to use for its backing storage so you don't add
> additional drives, if that makes sense.

I think the device would be much more useful if you could make it use
the qemu block layer instead of implementing your own functions for only
raw images and only with a given magic file name.

Kevin