Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation

[Evgeny Budilovsky <evgeny.budilovsky@ravellosystems.com>]

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Hi,
Currently there is no support in seabios to boot pvscsi.
What we did was a workaround.
We've reverted the patch which removes extboot support
[2a06024dc1b1e27b1be0266379af397e61b4a9ad]
and used -drive ...boot=on --option-rom extboot.bin to boot the pvscsi disk.

Best Regards,
Evgeny

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>wrote:

> Hello Dmitry,
>
> Is PVSCSI also ready to boot through BIOS Int 13h?
> If not, do you plan a SEABIOS patch?
>
> Thnx.
>
> Ciao,
> Gerhard
>
>
> On 15.03.2012 10:02, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
>
>> Below is the implementation of VMWare PVSCSI device and
>> command line parameters to configure vendor name and product name
>> for SCSI storage are implemented.
>> Latter is needed to make PVSCSI storage devices look exactly as
>> on VMWare hypervisors.
>>
>> With this and VMWARE3 patches V2V migration problem for VMWare
>> images should be solved relatively easy.
>>
>> PVSCSI implementation is based on Paolo Bonzini code sumbitted
>> some time ago but never applied.
>> See commit messages and file headers for details.
>>
>> Implementation supports of all the device features.
>> Code was tested on different OSes:
>>     Fedora 15
>>     Ubuntu 10.4
>>     Centos 6.2
>>     Windows 2008R2
>>     Windows 2008 64bit
>>     Windows 2008 32bit
>>     Windows 2003 64bit
>>     Windows 2003 32bit
>>
>> Dmitry Fleytman (5):
>>   Utility function strpadcpy() added
>>   Vendor name and product name parameters for SCSI devices     Options
>>     "vendor_name" and "product_name" added for SCSI disks.
>>   Header with various utility functions shared by VMWARE SCSI and
>>     network devices
>>   PVCSI paravirtualized device implementation
>>   PVSCSI paravirtualized device integration     Bus type "pvscsi"
>>     added.
>>
>>  Makefile.objs              |    1 +
>>  blockdev.c                 |   12 +-
>>  blockdev.h                 |   16 +-
>>  cutils.c                   |   13 +
>>  default-configs/pci.mak    |    1 +
>>  docs/specs/pvscsi-spec.txt |   92 ++++
>>  hw/pc.c                    |    5 +
>>  hw/pci-hotplug.c           |    7 +-
>>  hw/pci.h                   |    1 +
>>  hw/pvscsi.c                | 1242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++**
>> ++++++++++++++
>>  hw/pvscsi.h                |  442 ++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/scsi-bus.c              |   14 +-
>>  hw/scsi-disk.c             |   51 ++-
>>  hw/scsi.h                  |    1 +
>>  hw/vmware_utils.h          |  122 +++++
>>  qemu-common.h              |    1 +
>>  16 files changed, 1997 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 docs/specs/pvscsi-spec.txt
>>  create mode 100644 hw/pvscsi.c
>>  create mode 100644 hw/pvscsi.h
>>  create mode 100644 hw/vmware_utils.h
>>
>>
>
>

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