From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUCHH-0001i4-Du for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:30:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUCHA-0003YP-G0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:30:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUCH9-0003Y7-Qj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:30:00 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1307430291.28149.126.camel@das-HP-EliteBook-8530w> <1307489210.28149.157.camel@das-HP-EliteBook-8530w> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:29:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1307489210.28149.157.camel@das-HP-EliteBook-8530w> (Dave Seddon's message of "Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:26:50 +1000") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dave@seddon.ca Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Dave Seddon writes: > Greetings, > > Thanks for all the responses. > > Overall it sounds like supporting this is capability would be fairly > easy. However, Sadly for me it sounds like this won't be useful to > people generally unless they are trying to virtulize something that > relies on these codes. > > Answers to: > ------------------------------------------------ > Paulo: > > Statement: Here we should perhaps try to improve the ATA emulation. > Response: It would probably be helpful to improve both SCSI and ATA > emulation. > > ------------------------------------------------ > Markus: > > Question: That's not what I see. What version of QEMU are you using? > Answer: Using current package for Ubuntu 0.12.5 (that's probably a bad > word, give all the @redhat emails. sorry :) ) What do you see? I did > download the source and check, hence the grep snippet. We take patches even from Ubuntu users ;) 0.12.5 is pretty old. > Statement: No. Hardcoded to "QEMU HARDDISK ". > Response: Why couldn't this be a configuration item? > > Thanks for your reference to: docs/qdev-device-use.txt > And also for the 'scsi-hd' example. I can't see why, if the > "serial=S,ver=V" options are supported, that "model=" couldn't also be > added. - I will try this. Use "ver" as example to follow. "serial" carries some backward compatibility baggage. > Statement: Doubt it would be difficult. But would it be useful? > Agree with what your saying about specific calls, however, in my case > I'm trying to run a vendor supplied image which "only supports" certain > disks. It is currently borking because it doesn't like the disks. I > strongly doubt it does any disk specific calls. They are doing this to > stop us installing disks bigger than 500GB, for example. I'm trying to > make "appliance" software run virtually. Ha. I don't know wether a patch would be accepted, but there's just one way to find out. [...]