[libvirt] [PATCH] virtio-blk: deprecate SCSI passthrough

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at redhat.com
Fri Dec 13 14:46:26 UTC 2019


The Linux virtio_blk.ko guest driver is removing legacy SCSI passthrough
support.  Deprecate this feature in QEMU too.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com>
---
 qemu-deprecated.texi | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 4b4b7425ac..ef94d497da 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -285,6 +285,17 @@ spec you can use the ``-cpu rv64gcsu,priv_spec=v1.9.1`` command line argument.
 
 @section Device options
 
+ at subsection Emulated device options
+
+ at subsubsection -device virtio-blk,scsi=on|off (since 5.0.0)
+
+The virtio-blk SCSI passthrough feature is a legacy VIRTIO feature.  VIRTIO 1.0
+and later do not support it because the virtio-scsi device was introduced for
+full SCSI support.  Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required.
+
+Note this also applies to ``-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=on|off'', which is an
+alias.
+
 @subsection Block device options
 
 @subsubsection "backing": "" (since 2.12.0)
-- 
2.23.0




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