On 26.04.2012, at 18:17, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 26 April 2012 16:23, Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote: >> From: Einar Lueck <elelu...@de.ibm.com> >> >> There are QEMUMachines that have neither IF_IDE nor IF_SCSI as a >> default/standard interface to their block devices / drives. Therefore, >> this patch introduces a new field def_blk_if per QEMUMachine struct. > > Can you describe what the problem is that you're trying to solve > here? It's not entirely obvious from this commit message.
On s390, there is no ide or scsi, so qemu-system-s390x <file> currently uses a dirty hack that loops through IF_IDE and creates virtio devices. I'd assume this patch tried to get rid of that. Alex
