From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Floris Bos / Maxnet <bos@je-eigen-domein.nl>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry.fleytman@ravellosystems.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ide: Adds "model=s" option, allowing the user to override the default disk model name "QEMU HARDDISK"
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:08:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5E1F90.9080004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5E15DD.3060108@je-eigen-domein.nl>
Il 12/03/2012 16:27, Floris Bos / Maxnet ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> 1. IDE only, scsi-disk is missing.
>
> Correct.
> IDE support is easy.
>
> Adding SCSI support is more complicated, because "model" and "serial"
> are not the only factors that can make up a /dev/disk/by-id link
> Could be a combination of 3 fields: vendor, model and serial.
> But could also be based on another unique ascii or binary identifier
> provided by the drive through Vital Product Data page 83h.
I am going to add customization of VPD page 83h soonish (though only
limited to another ASCII identifier), and Dmitry Fleytman told me
offlist that he's going to add vendor/model support too.
That said, I agree with the other comments from Markus.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-12 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 12:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ide: Adds "model=s" option, allowing the user to override the default disk model name "QEMU HARDDISK" Floris Bos
2012-03-12 13:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-03-12 15:27 ` Floris Bos / Maxnet
2012-03-12 16:08 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-03-12 20:02 ` Floris Bos / Maxnet
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