[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Default to IDE when VirtIO isn't available

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 13:45:55 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:45:30PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> Previously we used SCSI when VirtIO wasn't available. KVM's SCSI
> support is not as mature as its IDE support, and SCSI isn't
> supported at all in RHEV.

Ugh, but ACK.

It might have been better for it to be configurable, but in general we
want to encourage virtio rather than either of the legacy devices (IDE
or SCSI).

Rich.

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