Re: [Qemu-devel] libguestfs now uses virtio-scsi, supports large numbers of disks

2012-06-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:44:42AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I switched libguestfs over to using virtio-scsi.  One immediate > > benefit is support for large numbers of disks: up to 255 because we're > > using 1 target / disk and

Re: [Qemu-devel] libguestfs now uses virtio-scsi, supports large numbers of disks

2012-06-15 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I switched libguestfs over to using virtio-scsi.  One immediate > benefit is support for large numbers of disks: up to 255 because we're > using 1 target / disk and we reserve one disk for the appliance, in > theory more could be support

[Qemu-devel] libguestfs now uses virtio-scsi, supports large numbers of disks

2012-06-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I switched libguestfs over to using virtio-scsi. One immediate benefit is support for large numbers of disks: up to 255 because we're using 1 target / disk and we reserve one disk for the appliance, in theory more could be supported if we used LUNs. This email just contains some notes that may be