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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1594239] Re: After adding more scsi disks for Aarc


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1594239] Re: After adding more scsi disks for Aarch64 virtual machine, start the VM and got Qemu Error
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:57:26 +0100

On 5 July 2016 at 17:43, Tom Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/05/2016 10:29 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> ...
>> The virt board creates a collection of virtio-mmio transports,
>> so if you create just a backend on the command line (via
>> "-device virtio-scsi-device") it will be plugged into a
>> virtio-bus on a virtio-mmio transport.
>>
>> You almost certainly didn't want to do this -- virtio-mmio
>> is only there for legacy reasons [it predates pci support
>> in the 'virt' board and the device-tree-driven kernel and
>> for a time it was the only way to do virtio].
>
> Should this behavior be changed?  Use PCI as a default instead?

This would break command line compatibility, which is
something we generally try to avoid. If you want
pci, why not just use virtio-scsi-pci ?

thanks
-- PMM



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