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

Ren Mingxin renmx at cn.fujitsu.com
Tue Oct 9 15:13:47 UTC 2012


Daniel, Cole:

On 10/09/2012 10:38 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 09:52 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:52:11PM +0800, Ren Mingxin wrote:
>>> 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 for your so quick replies. I'll fetch this job.

Ren Mingxin




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