On 13/12/19 15:46, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
The Linux virtio_blk.ko guest driver is removing legacy SCSI passthrough support. Deprecate this feature in QEMU too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 4b4b7425ac..ef94d497da 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -285,6 +285,17 @@ spec you can use the ``-cpu rv64gcsu,priv_spec=v1.9.1`` command line argument.
@section Device options
+@subsection Emulated device options + +@subsubsection -device virtio-blk,scsi=on|off (since 5.0.0) + +The virtio-blk SCSI passthrough feature is a legacy VIRTIO feature. VIRTIO 1.0 +and later do not support it because the virtio-scsi device was introduced for +full SCSI support. Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required. + +Note this also applies to ``-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=on|off'', which is an +alias. + @subsection Block device options
@subsubsection "backing": "" (since 2.12.0)
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>