Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] vhost-scsi: Add support for host virtualized target

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:01:41PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 21/01/2013 09:50, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> >> Unfortunately, I've not been able to get back to the conversion
> >> requested by Paolo for a standalone vhost-scsi PCI device.
> > 
> > It doesn't have to be a standalone device. A vhost=on frontend
> > option is also OK I think. Paolo, any objections?
> 
> Sorry, I missed this message.
> 
> I asked for a standalone device because the configuration mechanism
> (configfs vs. command-line) and the feature set are completely
> different.  Unlike virtio-net, it's not possible to switch one to the
> other at run time.
> 
> Paolo

Exactly the same applies to any other frontend option.
For example if you have two qemu instances with
different num_queues values you can not migrate one
to the other.
So in this sense it is not different from any other
frontend option, right?

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