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

Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-28T18:10:00Z

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.