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Re: [Xen-users] Limited number of phy disks?

As far as I know, the current Qemu implementation in Xen for HVM support does not support SCSI.  As James pointed out, though, if you use the GPL PV drivers, you can assign as many devices as you want to the HVM domU.  The catch to that is that if you ever have to boot with /nogplpv (to disable the GPL PV drivers), you'll lose everything except disk devices hda-hdd.

-Nick


-----Original Message-----
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
To: Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: christoffer@xxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Limited number of phy disks?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:03:43 +0200

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:45:06PM -0700, Nick Couchman wrote:
> I assume you're running as an HVM?  What version of Xen are you using?  
> As far as I know, Xen only support IDE drives in HVM domUs, 
> and it only supports a total of four drives - hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd.
> 

Hi.

Afaik Qemu supports SCSI disk/adapter emulation nowadays too.. 
SCSI disk support is not yet implemented in Xen (version of Qemu)? 

-- Pasi


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