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From: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA.
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:47:29 -0700
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On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 09:20 -0700, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 09/01/2009 07:13 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 
> > Umm, we do share code between SCSI drivers.  We have the ULDs (sg, sd,
> > sr, etc), we have the midlayer, and we have the transport classes (spi,
> > iscsi, fc, etc).
> > 
> 
> This makes a tons of sense. a scsi_transport_paravirt can have lots of common
> nubs. I bet administrators would love such common management facility.

I don't see how it will help a user. VMware exports a PCI device, and
this device will be available only when running under a VMware
hypervisor. If a particular device is available the OS will use the
corresponding driver.
Please note these drivers will be used by the guest operating system,
which is running virtualized. 
I don't get what kind of control the administrator has on this ? can you
please elaborate. 

Alok
> 
> Boaz