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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>, RonnieSahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:35:50PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> I think the motivation for iSCSI target support in QEMU is exactly
> what you mentioned - providing shared storage.  In migration scenarios
> it is necessary temporarily make shared storage possible with an image
> that is on a local disk.

Why do we need to use the complex iSCSI protocol for that instead of
simply using NBD?