[virt-tools-list] Would virt-manager like to support virtio-scsi?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 14:38:12 UTC 2012


On 10/09/2012 09:52 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:52:11PM +0800, Ren Mingxin wrote:
>> Hi, everyone:
>>
>> Now, virtio-scsi has been supported by libvirt/qemu, but we can only
>> assign virtio-scsi devices via libvirt xml or qemu cmdline, and users
>> couldn't do this by simple/visible way(virt-manager).
>>
>> So, let me put forward my question:
>>
>> 1) Would virt-manager like to accept virtio-scsi devices?
>>    If so:
>>       A) Do you Red-Hat decide to do this yourself soon?
>>          If so:
>>             a) Do you think other guys' modifications isn't needed?
>>             If so:
>>                i) Could you tell me when virt-manager can support
>>                    virtio-scsi?
>>    Else:
>>       A) Why not? The virtio-scsi isn't necessary to users who use gui?
> 
> We would definitely want virt-manager to be able to use virtio-scsi
> for guest disk configuration. I'm not aware of anyone at Red Hat who
> is planning to implement this in the near future though, so patches
> from anyone else are welcome
> 

Agreed, patches would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Cole




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