From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp,
Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>,
hch@lst.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:56:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6DC94C.4090503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315628610-28222-1-git-send-email-ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Am 10.09.2011 06:23, schrieb Ronnie Sahlberg:
> List,
>
> Please find a patch that adds built-in iSCSI support to QEMU when built and linked against the multiplatform iscsi initiator library at git://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi.git
>
> All previous comments and suggestions have been addressed in this patch.
>
> I and others have done extensive testing and used this patch extensively over the last ~6 months with great result.
>
>
> In some situations, using a built-in iscsi inititator has benefits against mounting the LUNs on the host.
>
> * Privacy: The iSCSI LUNs are private to the guest and are not visible either to the host, nor to any processes running on the host.
> * Ease of managment : If you have very many guests and very many, thousands of, iSCSI LUNs. It is inconvenient to have to expose all LUNs to the underlying host.
> * No root requirement. Since the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted as devices on the host, ordinary users can set up and use iSCSI resources without the need for root privilege on the host to map the devices to local scsi devices.
>
>
> Please merge this patch to master or explain how I should change the patch so that it becomes acceptable for inclusion into QEMU.
Orit, I think you could be interested in reviewing this patch?
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 4:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-10 4:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-12 9:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 14:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-16 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-17 7:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 22:51 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 8:02 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-09-15 9:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-14 23:08 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 6:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 8:48 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 9:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 11:27 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 11:42 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-15 12:01 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 12:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 11:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 12:34 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 12:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 16:59 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 9:44 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-09-15 9:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-15 9:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-21 9:48 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-23 9:15 ` Mark Wu
2011-09-23 10:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-12 8:56 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2011-09-14 12:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU Orit Wasserman
2011-09-14 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 16:36 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 6:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 9:52 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 9:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 10:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-17 19:08 ` Laurent Vivier
2011-09-18 7:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-14 16:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-14 22:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-21 9:37 Ronnie Sahlberg
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