The PC machines (pc-q35-* pc-i440fx-* pc-* isapc xenfv) automatically
create lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs and SCSI devices to honor -drive if=scsi.
For giggles, try -drive if=scsi,bus=25,media=cdrom --- this makes QEMU
create 25 of them.
lsi53c895a is thoroughly obsolete (PCI Ultra2 SCSI, ca. 2000), and
currently has no maintainer in QEMU. megasas is a better choice,
except with old OSes that lack drivers. virtio-scsi is a much better
choice when you have a driver, but only (newish) Linux comes with one
in the box. There is no good default that works for all guests.
Encourage users to pick a non-obsolete SCSI HBA that works for them by
deprecating -drive if=scsi.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
---
hw/i386/pc.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
index c345c04..ceb28c7 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
@@ -1650,9 +1650,15 @@ void pc_pci_device_init(PCIBus *pci_bus)
int max_bus;
int bus;
+ /* Note: if=scsi is deprecated with PC machine types */
max_bus = drive_get_max_bus(IF_SCSI);
for (bus = 0; bus <= max_bus; bus++) {
- lsi53c895a_create(pci_bus);
+ pci_create_simple(pci_bus, -1, "lsi53c895a");
+ /*
+ * By not creating frontends here, we make
+ * scsi_legacy_handle_cmdline() create them, and warn that
+ * this usage is deprecated.
+ */
}
}
--
2.7.4
