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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementa
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:54:31 +0100 |
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Il 15/03/2012 12:47, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> What is the V2V strategy?
>
> Supporting these devices is fine if we have a way to convert guests to
> use virtio. But if the plan is to keep the guests on VMware pv
> devices, then that will split the development effort on support and
> optimizing I/O devices. All the performance work going into
> virtio-net (vhost-net), virtio-blk, and possibly virtio-scsi isn't
> easy to duplicate for VMware pv devices. Also, we cannot extend
> VMware devices easily while retaining compatibility.
virtio-scsi and vmware-pvscsi should be equivalent in terms of
performance. Of course vhost-scsi would be another story.
I think supporting these devices is good anyway as long as they are
expected to perform decently but not necessarily as well as virtio.
After all we do support both vmware-vga and qxl.
> I'm for supporting these devices, but we really need another step to
> move migrated guests onto virtio - otherwise users will be
> disappointed with KVM's support/performance. Can you explain a bit
> how you want these devices to be used?
I'm curious about this too.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] PVSCSI paravirtualized device integration Bus type "pvscsi" added., (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Header with various utility functions shared by VMWARE SCSI and network devices, Dmitry Fleytman, 2012/03/15
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Vendor name and product name parameters for SCSI devices Options "vendor_name" and "product_name" added for SCSI disks., Dmitry Fleytman, 2012/03/15
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] PVCSI paravirtualized device implementation, Dmitry Fleytman, 2012/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation, Gerhard Wiesinger, 2012/03/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation, Gerhard Wiesinger, 2012/03/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation, Dmitry Fleytman, 2012/03/15