Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.

Jeff Garzik
2006-03-24T13:37:15Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of
> host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already
> present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device
> infrastructure.

Another benefit of SCSI: when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel
switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt
disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.

Jeff