From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4Afz-00078t-8B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:04:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4Afy-0002cJ-74 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:04:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4Afx-0002cE-U8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:04:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4E71E9B0.5010800@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:04:00 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1315628610-28222-1-git-send-email-ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> <1315628610-28222-2-git-send-email-ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> <20110912091408.GA3465@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> <4E71956B.6030902@redhat.com> <4E71BBE3.5000207@redhat.com> <4E71C146.6070406@redhat.com> <4E71E4B2.9060304@redhat.com> <20110915114611.GA441@lst.de> <4E71E927.10100@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E71E927.10100@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dlaor@redhat.com Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, Orit Wasserman , Ronnie Sahlberg , Christoph Hellwig On 09/15/2011 02:01 PM, Dor Laor wrote: >>> My main motivation for external iScsi is to provide qemu operations >>> w/ non shared storage. >> >> iSCSI with multiple initiator is shared storage. > > Exactly :) that's the magic. I think we're on the same page, it's just a difference in terms. iSCSI or NBD would provide the sharing of the storage instead of NFS, basically, so the underlying storage is not shared -- right? Paolo