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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 09/14/2011 05:51 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >  Why do we need to use the complex iSCSI protocol for that instead of
> >  simply using NBD?
>
> I think NBD would be fine, especially with a flush command.

Indeed: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/113639

iSCSI is still very useful to easily deploy remote storage, and more 
long term for passthrough to an HBA provided by QEMU (as an alternative 
to scsi-generic).

Paolo