On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:47:36PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > aio_ioctl is emulated anyway and currently broken.
What's broken about it currently? > So better use 'normal' ioctl here as there are no benefits > on using the emulated async I/O call. There are huge benefits. Without it the whole scsi command execution happens synchronously in the qemu main loop, blocking guest execution.