[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V2

[john cooper]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:06:57PM -0400, john cooper wrote:
> > [Resend of earlier patch: 1/2 rebased to qemu-kvm,
> > 2/2 minor tweak]
>
> patch 1/2 seems to be missing.
It is in the kvm and qemu-devel list archives:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/maillist.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-05/msg00661.html
> > Equivalent functionality currently exists for IDE
> > and SCSI, however it is not yet implemented for
> > virtio.
>
> So why can't we re-use the existing interfaces instead of inventing a
> new one?
I'm unclear to what specifically you're referring -- the
ioctl() used to retrieve the serial number in the guest?

-john

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