Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/14/2011 05:51 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >  Why do we need to use the complex iSCSI protocol for that instead of
> >  simply using NBD?
>
> I think NBD would be fine, especially with a flush command.

Indeed: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/113639

iSCSI is still very useful to easily deploy remote storage, and more 
long term for passthrough to an HBA provided by QEMU (as an alternative 
to scsi-generic).

Paolo