From: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
To: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: john.cooper@redhat.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V3
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:26:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1C88BD.6020000@redhat.com> (raw)
[Rework of earlier patch, 2/2 modified to use
an existing interface]
This patch allows passing of a virtio_blk drive
serial number from qemu into a guest's virtio_blk
driver, and provides a means to access the serial
number from a guest's userspace.
Equivalent functionality currently exists for IDE
and SCSI, however it is not yet implemented for
virtio. Scenarios exist where guest code relies
on a unique drive serial number to correctly
identify the machine environment in which it
exists.
The following two patches implement the above:
qemu-vblk-serial-3.patch
which provides the qemu missing bits to interpret
a '-drive .. serial=XYZ ..' flag, and:
virtio_blk-serial-3.patch
which extracts this information and makes it
available to guest userspace via an HDIO_GET_IDENTITY
ioctl, eg: 'hdparm -i /dev/vda'.
The above patches are relative to qemu-kvm.git and
2.6.29.3 respectively.
-john
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