Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-scsi: first version

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 05:09:04 EST


On 12/03/2011 11:22 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> You can fix this in QEMU; READ and WRITE commands can be split in
> multiple parts. The scsi-block device I added recently does this.
You can split -some- commands... it's clumsy and not always legit, you
don't always know all commands (what about vendor commands such as
firmware updates etc...)

For the record, firmware updates won't run under virt unless you make qemu runs with CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Paolo
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