Re: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module

Juergen Gross
2014-07-11T08:57:52Z

On 06/28/2014 08:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:35PM +0200, jgross@suse.com wrote:
>> From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>
>> Introduces the XEN pvSCSI backend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a XEN domU
>> to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that domU. The SCSI commands
>> are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver domain (usually Dom0) which is
>> owner of the physical device. This allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a
>> XEN domU.
>
> This should be written against the generic target core infrastructure
> in drivers/target, instead of introducing another simplistic pass
> through only SCSI target.
> .
>

Just to be sure: you mean something like a combined version of
tcm_vhost and virtio_scsi?

Juergen