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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:36:30 +0000
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Real SCSI device passthrough (v5)
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To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
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Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> This patch allows to connect the virtual SCSI interface of Qemu to
> a real SCSI device of the host.
> Using the devices /dev/sg, it allows to send the SCSI commands from the
> virtual SCSI interface to the real device.
> 
> It has been tested with a SATA disk and an ATA CD burner with ide-scsi module
> and wodim to burn a CD-RW.
> 
> v5 allows to read movies from a DVD. It has been tested with PowerDVD and XP with unprotected DVD.

Please update to current CVS, I committed v4 before I saw this one.


Thiemo