[config-review] VIRTIO_SCSI

[Stefan Bader]

On 01.06.2012 15:42, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Bader (stefan.bader at canonical.com):
>>
>> Looking at this option I gathered the following info:
>>
>> - it is new with 3.4 and adds a guest side driver for a virtual host
>>   bus adapter.
>> - it is flagged experimental
>> - to be of use it would require qemu/kvm support (-device options)
>>   which currently does not seem to be present. libvirt seems to
>>   have code to make use of the feature but that will not work until
>>   qemu is ready.
> 
> For what it's worth, it looks like virtio-scsi support should be in 1.1,
> which I'm hoping to get into q.

If there is a plan for that to hit q, I would say the option should be =m to
allow for early-adoption(-testing).

-Stefan

>> So at the moment it feels like it should be turned off, except if we want to be
>> ready in case qemu in quantal suddenly gets the feature. The risk for =m would
>> likely be low as the driver looks for a special pci subid which would not be
>> present.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
> 
> 
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