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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "
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Ryan Harper |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"? |
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Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:59:23 -0500 |
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* Dave Seddon <address@hidden> [2011-06-07 02:28]:
> Greetings,
>
> Just wondering if it would be difficult to add the ability to define the
> SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version". I've
> been using the '-device lsi' successfully to emulate the LSI controller,
> but now I want to emulate certain disks too.
>
> e.g. I've been using this:
> ---------------------------
> ...
> -drive
> if=none,id=disk00,file=/home/das/documents/qemu/disk00.img.qcow,media=disk,cache=writeback
> \
> -device lsi \
> -device scsi-disk,drive=disk00,bus=scsi.0 \
> ...
> ---------------------------
>
>
> The reason this would be really cool is that tools like smartmontools
> seem to match on the "Device Model", and the device-model "QEMU" hasn't
> made it into the list yet.
>
What's the end goal here? Are you really passing an entire disk to the
guest and want to have the guest monitor the device? If not, then I
suggest just disabling smartmontools since it won't give you meaningful
data anyhow.
--
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
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