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Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:41:28 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch: Adding ability for qemu-img to create SCSI
	VMware disk images
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To: Aaron Mason <absorbentshoulderman@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Aaron Mason wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I needed to create a heap of virtual hard drives to practice creating 
> RAID arrays.  Since qemu-img only creates IDE images, creating a large 
> number of images for this was a very cumbersome excercise.  I compared 
> a SCSI image to an IDE image, and the only difference is the adapter 
> type.  This patch adds command line parameters to qemu-img to specify 
> either a BusLogic or LSI Logic image for 'create' and 'convert', and 
> extends the 'info' command to show the adapter type.  I have also 
> updated the file qemu-img.text and the help output to display the new 
> parameters, and put in a parameter that was missing.
>
> The patch is as follows, and can be applied to 0.10.5 stable (and 
> latest snapshot if qemu-img hasn't changed) with patch -Np1:
>

I don't think this functionality is very useful for QEMU because we 
don't emulate the same SCSI controller that VMware does.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori