Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add serial number support for virtio_blk

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:28:40PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:05:12PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   
>>> I also noticed that if=scsi,serial=XXX doesn't seem to do anything useful.
>>>
>>>     
>> What makes you think so?
>>   
>
> It doesn't seem to change /dev/disk/by-id/PATH
>
I thought you mean that there is no way to get it from guest hence the
question. I don't know what Linux uses for /dev/disk/by-id/PATH, but
Windows retrieve disk serial using the scsi command that QEMU
implements.

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                        Gleb.