From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjqpT-0007Q2-Tn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:08:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjqpP-0007OV-TH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:08:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33824 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjqpP-0007OS-Pr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:08:43 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:45958) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjqpP-0006us-7j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:08:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:08:41 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk issues Message-ID: <20090318080841.GA13638@lst.de> References: <20090303125411.GA16099@lst.de> <200903031422.44151.paul@codesourcery.com> <49BE5290.6060401@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49BE5290.6060401@redhat.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Christoph Hellwig On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:22:24PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > The kvm bios supports 32 slots; I don't know if upstream bochs picked up > these changes. I tried using the kvm pc-bios with upstream qemu, but it fails pretty early on when the kernel tries to initialize the timer interrupt. What's the protocol for syncing all those bios changes? > In any case I'd like to see a virtio-blk controller which can support an > arbitrary number of disks, much like a SCSI controller. A pci slot or > function per disk is wasteful. I'll see what I can do.