From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tape support
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:51:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CB46EA.3050005@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221130881.4145.25.camel@frecb07144>
Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 12:54 +0200, Dietmar Maurer a écrit :
>
>> Is there a way to use a scsi tape? I tried -drive file=/dev/sg0, but
>> that does not work (eject, rewind works, but read/write fails - no date
>> is written - no errors)
>>
>
> try "-drive file=/dev/sg0,if=scsi"
>
How would that work? Won't qemu attempt to show the tape as a disk? Or
does it detect this special case and passes-through the scsi device?
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-13 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-11 10:54 tape support Dietmar Maurer
2008-09-11 11:01 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-09-11 11:24 ` Dietmar Maurer
2008-09-11 11:43 ` Soren Hansen
2008-09-13 4:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-13 8:01 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-09-13 14:43 ` Avi Kivity
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