Xen 
 
Home About Xen.org Xen Xen Summit Wiki Mailing List Bug Tracker Xen Downloads
 
   
 

xen-devel

RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.2 of GPL PV Drivers for Wind

To: "Emre ERENOGLU" <erenoglu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Jun Kamada" <kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.2 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 21:02:25 +1000
Cc: Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 29 May 2008 04:02:55 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <fe9771a80805290355q6e81839buc23dc7fc007e4f16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <fe9771a80805270916r3adddb7eic3f67ab66b7efade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D013DCBD2@trantor> <20080529115132.A665.EB2C8575@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <fe9771a80805290355q6e81839buc23dc7fc007e4f16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AcjBeqBdfW51e5WsSVa/3O45cYRELwAAEXaA
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.2 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows
> Hi Jun,
> 
> Could you please tell us if it will be possible to "export" a LVM
Volume
> as a SCSI drive? Or maybe I shall ask, would it make sense? If not, is
> your pvSCSI implementation only efficient when there's an actual
physical
> scsi device on the dom?
> 

It wouldn't make sense. I can't think of any advantage to turning a
block device into a scsi device for that purpose. The windows xenvbd
driver does this on the windows side, but only because it appears to be
the best way to present a disk device to Windows.

The pvSCSI is a passthrough mechanism for 'sg' devices (eg /dev/sgX) and
allows the passing through of raw scsi commands. Great for CD burners,
tape drives, scanners (do SCSI scanners still exist???) and other
non-block-device devices, but not necessary for lvm backed or file
backed block devices.

Did you have a particular reason in mind? Maybe you thought of something
I didn't :)

James


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel