From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ISCSI: Force scsi-generic for MMC with blank disks
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:16:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5030BCE5.4040702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN05THQ3tZ8qO1YDUswG16JkoM3wf=9UMz8ar0M6dZX_gBr_mw@mail.gmail.com>
Il 19/08/2012 01:44, ronnie sahlberg ha scritto:
> format=raw works !
>
> That then begs the question if would it be possible to force
> format=raw always for iscsi devices?
>
> A iscsi device as far as I can see would always just be a raw block
> device and there would never be a "header" on such devices
> so maybe that would be a solution?
While it sounds weird, it is perfectly possible to host a qcow2 image on
an iSCSI LUN. So the solution is to make iscsi behave the same as
raw-posix and raw-win32 (since they all sit at the same level).
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-19 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 2:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Two trivial patches for iSCSI and blank DVDs Ronnie Sahlberg
2012-08-17 2:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ISCSI: Set number of blocks to 0 for blank CDROM devices Ronnie Sahlberg
2012-08-18 21:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-18 22:06 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-17 2:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ISCSI: Force scsi-generic for MMC with blank disks Ronnie Sahlberg
2012-08-18 14:23 ` Blue Swirl
2012-08-18 21:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-18 22:02 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-18 22:04 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-18 22:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-18 22:19 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-18 22:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-18 22:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-18 23:44 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-19 10:16 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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