From: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
To: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:58:21 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1203072041440.30263@bbs.intern> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.was171alv638fp@l311563.la.gr.repsolypf.com>
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote:
> I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given
> up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support because they don't
> want to QA it. That should be a decent sign that you may want to avoid
> it.
OK, but SAS (Serial attached SCSI) is technology in the area of storage interface
technology where all big storage vendors see future (e.g. they give up:
FC and SATA drives, SATA drives are replaced by MDL SATA drives (SATA
7200RPM drives with SAS interface)).
Therefore I don't understand why distros are giving up SAS which is
also SCSI (of course old legacy SCSI is understandable).
And legacy SCSI is of course technology from yesterday but e.g. LSI53C895A
has largest OS support ever as far as I know (from DOS, Win95, NT4, W2K,
XP, Vista, Windows 7, Linux, etc.). Also CPU usage is low.
What's your preferred storage technology on QEMU?
Where do you see future?
BTW: The underlying problem I want to solve: I want to migrate a VMWare
Server 2.x VM based on Buslogic SCSI controller to QEMU/KVM. And
geometry translation to IDE/SATA doesn't boot up the system ... Any ideas
to migrate to other storage technology (VM is offline)?
Ciao,
Gerhard
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 20:13 [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-07 6:41 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-07 14:51 ` Brian Jackson
2012-03-07 19:58 ` Gerhard Wiesinger [this message]
2012-03-08 7:44 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-08 8:54 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-03-08 10:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 6:28 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 7:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 7:46 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 8:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-09 6:25 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 6:18 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 7:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 8:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-09 11:50 ` Kevin O'Connor
2012-03-09 16:48 ` Brian Jackson
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