Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?

[Avi Kivity]

 On 08/04/2010 08:27 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 12:19 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  On 08/04/2010 08:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > That's another story and I totally agree here, but not reusing 
> > > /dev/sd* is not intrinsic in the design of virtio-blk (and one thing 
> > > that Windows gets right; everything is SCSI, period).
> >
> > I don't really get why everything must be SCSI.  Everything must 
> > support read, write, a few other commands, and a large set of 
> > optional commands.  But why map them all to SCSI?  What's the magic?
>
> Because that's what real hardware with only a few rare exceptions.

I thought that IDE was emulated as SCSI even when it wasn't.  But I 
guess now with SATA you're right.

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