On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 01:16:30PM +0300, Evgeny Budilovsky wrote:
Signed-off-by: Evgeny Budilovsky evgeny.budilovsky@ravellosystems.com
Thanks for submitting.
I'm fine with the patch. But can you expand on what "pvscsi" is, what advantages there is for an user to enable it, what hypervisors support it, etc. Ideally this info would be in the Kconfig menu as well.
Hi, I was thinking about writing similar to this in the Kconfig help item. What do you think ? If this is ok I will resend the patch
config PVSCSI depends on DRIVES && QEMU_HARDWARE bool "pvscsi controllers" default y help Support boot from Paravirtualized SCSI storage. This kind of storage is mainly supported by VMware ESX hypervisor. It is commonly used to allow fast storage access by communicating directly with the underlying hypervisor. Enabling this type of boot will allow booting directly from images that were imported from ESX platform, without the need to use slower emulation of storage controllers such as IDE.
-Kevin