From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Ekaterina Tumanova <tumanova@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Public KVM Mailing List <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] hd-geometry.c: Integrate HDIO_GETGEO in guessing for target-s390x
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:19:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F459FD.2050108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406636839-11946-2-git-send-email-tumanova@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Il 29/07/2014 14:27, Ekaterina Tumanova ha scritto:
> The new HDIO_GETGEO logic is required for two use cases:
> a) Support for geometries of Direct Attached Storage Disks (DASD)
> on s390x configured as backing of virtio block devices.
Is this still relevant now that QEMU can emulate 512-byte sectors on top
of host devices with 4k sectors?
> b) Support for FCP attached SCSI disks that do not yet have a
> partition table. Without this patch, fdisk -l on the host would
> return different results then fdisk -l in the guest.
Can you provide an example?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-20 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 12:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Geometry and blocksize support for backing devices Ekaterina Tumanova
2014-07-29 12:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] hd-geometry.c: Integrate HDIO_GETGEO in guessing for target-s390x Ekaterina Tumanova
2014-08-20 8:19 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-08-20 9:35 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-08-20 13:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-25 8:21 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-07-29 12:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] blocksize: support auto-sensing of blocksizes Ekaterina Tumanova
2014-09-03 15:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-07-29 12:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] blocksize: Add driver method to get the blocksizes Ekaterina Tumanova
2014-07-29 12:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] blocksize: add blkconf_blocksize call to all block devices Ekaterina Tumanova
2014-09-03 15:46 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-04 10:28 ` Ekaterina Tumanova
2014-09-17 14:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-04 14:15 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-09-17 13:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-07-29 12:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Geometry and blocksize support for backing devices Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-06 15:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-06 17:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-06 19:05 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-07 9:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-11-07 9:48 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-07 15:58 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-11-07 13:39 ` Ekaterina Tumanova
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