* [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-block serial number.
@ 2012-12-20 2:24 Alexey Zaytsev
2012-12-20 8:20 ` Markus Armbruster
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From: Alexey Zaytsev @ 2012-12-20 2:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Kevin Wolf, Stefan Hajnoczi
Hi.
Would it be a good idea to provide some non-empty serial number for
VIRTIO_BLK_T_GET_ID, when the user does not specify one?
QEMU assigns a default serial to IDE drives, but not virtio.
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-block serial number.
2012-12-20 2:24 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-block serial number Alexey Zaytsev
@ 2012-12-20 8:20 ` Markus Armbruster
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From: Markus Armbruster @ 2012-12-20 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexey Zaytsev; +Cc: Kevin Wolf, qemu-devel, Stefan Hajnoczi
Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi.
>
> Would it be a good idea to provide some non-empty serial number for
> VIRTIO_BLK_T_GET_ID, when the user does not specify one?
> QEMU assigns a default serial to IDE drives, but not virtio.
SCSI devices don't get one either.
The IDE default serial numbers aren't stable; they depend on device
initialization order. We try hard to keep that the same. Still,
default serial numbers can change when you add or remove devices, or
swap connectors. In my opinion, this makes them pretty useless.
Ideas on better default serial numbers are welcome.
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