Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target

2007-10-31 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:56:53PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Dan Kenigsberg a écrit : > > >Hi, > > > > > >I have some newby's questions: is a speedup expected, comparing to ide > > > > We should have a speedup. > > Would you

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target

2007-10-31 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > Dan Kenigsberg a écrit : > >Hi, > > > >I have some newby's questions: is a speedup expected, comparing to ide > > We should have a speedup. Would you suggest where it could show? I was trying simple dd and bonnie++, and saw big var

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target

2007-10-31 Thread Laurent Vivier
Dan Kenigsberg a écrit : Hi, I have some newby's questions: is a speedup expected, comparing to ide We should have a speedup. But an improvement can also be to interface a _real_ SCSI disk and send directly to it the SCSI commands generated by the _virtual_ SCSI interface (as it is done in B

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target

2007-10-31 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi, I have some newby's questions: is a speedup expected, comparing to ide (I didn't notice any)? Can the PC boot from a SCSI-mounted device (I did not succeede)?

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add SCSI support for PC target

2007-10-28 Thread Laurent . Vivier
Hi, I know this has already been tried, but I hope this time I have the good approach: this series of 3 patches introduces the support of SCSI devices for the PC target (and try to break nothing existing). [PATCH 1/3] Add args to -cdrom to define where is connected the cdrom This patch allo