From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Andy Grover" <agrover@redhat.com>,
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>,
"Benoît Canet" <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] tcmu-runner and QEMU
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:08:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5404298D.4080205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54037F82.9050209@redhat.com>
Il 31/08/2014 22:03, Andy Grover ha scritto:
>> So I think what you want is a `qemu-iscsi'? ie. the same as qemu-nbd,
>> but with an iSCSI frontend (to replace the NBD server).
>
> You want qemu to be able to issue SCSI commands over iSCSI? I thought
> qemu used libiscsi for this, to be the initiator. What Benoit and I have
> been discussing is the other side, enabling qemu to configure LIO to
> handle requests from other initiators
Right, you're talking about the same thing; qemu-nbd is an NBD server
(matching a "target" in SCSI speak) that understands qcow2.
Paolo
> (either VMs or iron) over iSCSI or
> FCoE, but backed by qcow2 disk images. The problem being LIO doesn't
> speak qcow2 yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-01 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 17:22 [Qemu-devel] tcmu-runner and QEMU Benoît Canet
2014-08-29 18:38 ` Andy Grover
2014-08-29 18:51 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-29 22:36 ` Andy Grover
2014-08-29 22:46 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-30 14:46 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-08-30 15:53 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-30 16:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-08-30 16:04 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-08-30 17:22 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-30 21:50 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-30 16:51 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-31 20:03 ` Andy Grover
2014-08-31 20:38 ` Benoît Canet
2014-09-01 8:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-01 8:08 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-09-02 9:25 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-03 0:20 ` Andy Grover
2014-09-03 7:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-03 13:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-04 13:24 ` Benoît Canet
2014-09-04 15:15 ` Andy Grover
2014-09-04 15:59 ` Benoît Canet
2014-09-04 20:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=5404298D.4080205@redhat.com \
--to=pbonzini@redhat.com \
--cc=agrover@redhat.com \
--cc=benoit.canet@irqsave.net \
--cc=kwolf@redhat.com \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
--cc=rjones@redhat.com \
--cc=stefanha@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).