From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MIqIB-0001f4-9X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:39:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MIqI5-0001eG-Ib for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:39:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45913 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MIqI5-0001eD-DE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:38:57 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43430) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MIqI4-0006gd-TU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:38:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:38:51 +0300 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add serial number support for virtio_blk Message-ID: <20090622203851.GE15865@redhat.com> References: <4A3FCCEB.1080603@redhat.com> <4A3FD5E8.1060300@codemonkey.ws> <20090622193019.GD15865@redhat.com> <4A3FE978.9040406@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A3FE978.9040406@codemonkey.ws> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: john cooper , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:28:40PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Gleb Natapov wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:05:12PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> I also noticed that if=scsi,serial=XXX doesn't seem to do anything useful. >>> >>> >> What makes you think so? >> > > It doesn't seem to change /dev/disk/by-id/PATH > I thought you mean that there is no way to get it from guest hence the question. I don't know what Linux uses for /dev/disk/by-id/PATH, but Windows retrieve disk serial using the scsi command that QEMU implements. -- Gleb.