From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T32YF-00071m-19 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:16:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T32YE-0004XV-8J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:16:10 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:44599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T32YE-0004XR-17 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:16:10 -0400 Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so3693478wgb.10 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <5030BCE5.4040702@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:16:05 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1345170981-7738-1-git-send-email-ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> <1345170981-7738-3-git-send-email-ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> <50300FF1.7070109@redhat.com> <5030153C.5000005@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ISCSI: Force scsi-generic for MMC with blank disks List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: ronnie sahlberg Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Il 19/08/2012 01:44, ronnie sahlberg ha scritto: > format=raw works ! > > That then begs the question if would it be possible to force > format=raw always for iscsi devices? > > A iscsi device as far as I can see would always just be a raw block > device and there would never be a "header" on such devices > so maybe that would be a solution? While it sounds weird, it is perfectly possible to host a qcow2 image on an iSCSI LUN. So the solution is to make iscsi behave the same as raw-posix and raw-win32 (since they all sit at the same level). Paolo