Re: [Xen-users] Status of PVSCSI

[Jon Schewe <jschewe@xxxxxxx>]

On 8/11/16 5:49 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Am 9. August 2016 10:49:26 MESZ, schrieb Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> CC Olaf (who worked on upstreaming pvscsi supported during 4.7 window)
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:00:49AM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote:
>>> I'm looking to move my backups into a VM and PVSCSI seems like the
>> right
>>> way to get the tape library and drive visible to the VM. I’m
>> currently
>>> on Ubuntu 14.04 with xen 4.4. I’m intending to upgrade to Ubuntu
>> 16.04
>>> with xen 4.6 soon, although I’d like to get the backups in a VM
>> before
>>> the upgrade.
>>>
>>> According to http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Paravirtualized_SCSI
>> it’s
>>> not supported in xl yet (consistent with my attempts to use it).
>> However
>>> xm has been deprecated and is removed as of xen 4.5. So what front
>> end
>>> can I use pvscsi with?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jon Schewe
>>> Research Scientist
>>> Raytheon BBN Technologies
>>> 5775 Wayzata Blvd, Ste 630
>>> Saint Louis Park, MN, 55416
>>> Office: 952-545-5720
>>>
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> Either use my staging-wip branch at https://github.com/olafhering/xen.git or 
> search for libxl pvscsi in the xen-devel archives at http://lists.xen.org.
>

Given that it's not in the release, that would suggest it's not
considered production ready at this point. Is that correct?

-- 
Jon Schewe
Research Scientist
Raytheon BBN Technologies
5775 Wayzata Blvd, Ste 630
Saint Louis Park, MN, 55416
Office: 952-545-5720


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