Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about scsi emulation

[Yaoli Zheng <yzheng@axcient.com>]

Thank you for the advice!
It will be grateful if someone can provide any guide how to config  MegaSAS HBA or how to use xen pvscsi in XEN.
There seems no option in XEN for these two driver emulation and no document found online.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano Stabellini [mailto:stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 11:18 AM
To: Stefan Hajnoczi
Cc: Yaoli Zheng; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Qemu-devel] Question about scsi emulation

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 02:16:47PM -0700, Yaoli Zheng wrote:
> > We have problem using qemu emulated scsi driver(the old lsi). Wonder if any of other device model we can try for emulating scsi, and how we can get and config it in Xen? Having been told virtio-scsi is alternative one, but have no idea how to get it work in Xen.
> 
> The MegaSAS HBA might be another option.  Not sure whether MegaSAS or 
> virtio-scsi are supported under Xen though.
 
Making MegaSAS HBA work on Xen should be easy.

Rather than virtio-scsi I would consider the new Xen pvscsi frontend/backend drivers, now upstream in Linux (drivers/scsi/xen-scsifront.c and drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c). Usually Xen PV drivers perform much better than virtio devices on Xen.

That said, probably most things would be better than the old lsi.