From: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
To: Zach Carter <z.carter@f5.com>
Cc: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: qemu-kvm 0.12.4 hanging forever
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:51:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2E352D.7060903@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007021028.32097.z.carter@f5.com>
On 07/02/10 11:28, Zach Carter wrote:
> On Thursday 01 July 2010 16:02:26 Brian Jackson wrote:
>>> I'm sure I could use the qemu-kvm that ships from CentOS with the
>>> corresponding kernel module, however that lacks certain essential
>>> features, including support for scsi disk drive emulation.
>>
>> There's a reason Redhat disables scsi support in their kvm... it's not
>> really suggested to use it.
>
> What specific reason is that? The kvm.spec %changelog references RedHat
> bugzilla 512837, however I am not authorized to access it.
>
> scsi is a hard requirement for us, even if we have to stay on the old kernel
> module.
>
> Any additional insight would be much appreciated.
I've used SCSI for RHEL3 and RHEL4 guests for years. Performance is
significantly better than IDE. I have yet to have a guest crash because
of it.
David
>
> thanks,
>
> -Zach
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-02 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 22:37 qemu-kvm 0.12.4 hanging forever Zach Carter
2010-07-01 23:02 ` Brian Jackson
2010-07-02 17:28 ` Zach Carter
2010-07-02 18:51 ` David S. Ahern [this message]
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