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 17:43:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CBD186.6070906@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221292888.11231.5.camel@frecb07144>
Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Yes, Qemu detects it's SCSI interface and passes the SCSI commands to
> devices. But qemu ignores the type of the device but OS (linux) detects
> this as a tape (with INQUIRY).
>
> It works well for CD/DVD and disk, but I'm working with Dietmar to make
> it working with tape (commands encoding differs)... and I found some
> devices to test.
>
Neat...
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-13 14:45 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
2008-09-13 8:01 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-09-13 14:43 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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