From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Ahern" Subject: Re: qemu-kvm 0.12.4 hanging forever Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:51:25 -0600 Message-ID: <4C2E352D.7060903@cisco.com> References: <201007011537.30083.z.carter@f5.com> <201007011802.27102.iggy@theiggy.com> <201007021028.32097.z.carter@f5.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Jackson , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Zach Carter Return-path: Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:48219 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759423Ab0GBStf (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:49:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201007021028.32097.z.carter@f5.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >