Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Support default interface types per QEMUMachine

[Alexander Graf]

On 26.04.2012, at 18:17, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 26 April 2012 16:23, Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Einar Lueck <address@hidden>
>> 
>> There are QEMUMachines that have neither IF_IDE nor IF_SCSI as a
>> default/standard interface to their block devices / drives. Therefore,
>> this patch introduces a new field def_blk_if per QEMUMachine struct.
> 
> Can you describe what the problem is that you're trying to solve
> here? It's not entirely obvious from this commit message.

On s390, there is no ide or scsi, so qemu-system-s390x <file> currently uses a 
dirty hack that loops through IF_IDE and creates virtio devices. I'd assume 
this patch tried to get rid of that.


Alex