Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation

[Gerhard Wiesinger <gerhard@wiesinger.com>]

Hello Dmitry,

Is PVSCSI also ready to boot through BIOS Int 13h?
If not, do you plan a SEABIOS patch?

Thnx.

Ciao,
Gerhard

On 15.03.2012 10:02, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
> Below is the implementation of VMWare PVSCSI device and
> command line parameters to configure vendor name and product name
> for SCSI storage are implemented.
> Latter is needed to make PVSCSI storage devices look exactly as
> on VMWare hypervisors.
>
> With this and VMWARE3 patches V2V migration problem for VMWare
> images should be solved relatively easy.
>
> PVSCSI implementation is based on Paolo Bonzini code sumbitted
> some time ago but never applied.
> See commit messages and file headers for details.
>
> Implementation supports of all the device features.
> Code was tested on different OSes:
>      Fedora 15
>      Ubuntu 10.4
>      Centos 6.2
>      Windows 2008R2
>      Windows 2008 64bit
>      Windows 2008 32bit
>      Windows 2003 64bit
>      Windows 2003 32bit
>
> Dmitry Fleytman (5):
>    Utility function strpadcpy() added
>    Vendor name and product name parameters for SCSI devices     Options
>      "vendor_name" and "product_name" added for SCSI disks.
>    Header with various utility functions shared by VMWARE SCSI and
>      network devices
>    PVCSI paravirtualized device implementation
>    PVSCSI paravirtualized device integration     Bus type "pvscsi"
>      added.
>
>   Makefile.objs              |    1 +
>   blockdev.c                 |   12 +-
>   blockdev.h                 |   16 +-
>   cutils.c                   |   13 +
>   default-configs/pci.mak    |    1 +
>   docs/specs/pvscsi-spec.txt |   92 ++++
>   hw/pc.c                    |    5 +
>   hw/pci-hotplug.c           |    7 +-
>   hw/pci.h                   |    1 +
>   hw/pvscsi.c                | 1242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hw/pvscsi.h                |  442 ++++++++++++++++
>   hw/scsi-bus.c              |   14 +-
>   hw/scsi-disk.c             |   51 ++-
>   hw/scsi.h                  |    1 +
>   hw/vmware_utils.h          |  122 +++++
>   qemu-common.h              |    1 +
>   16 files changed, 1997 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 docs/specs/pvscsi-spec.txt
>   create mode 100644 hw/pvscsi.c
>   create mode 100644 hw/pvscsi.h
>   create mode 100644 hw/vmware_utils.h
>