[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of 
> host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already 
> present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device 
> infrastructure.
Another benefit of SCSI:  when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel 
switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt 
disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.
        Jeff



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