Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > The PC machines (pc-q35-* pc-i440fx-* pc-* isapc xenfv) automatically > create lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs and SCSI devices to honor -drive if=scsi. > For giggles, try -drive if=scsi,bus=25,media=cdrom --- this makes QEMU > create 25 of them. > > lsi53c895a is thoroughly obsolete (PCI Ultra2 SCSI, ca. 2000), and > currently has no maintainer in QEMU. megasas is a better choice, > except with old OSes that lack drivers. virtio-scsi is a much better > choice when you have a driver, but only (newish) Linux comes with one > in the box. There is no good default that works for all guests. > > Encourage users to pick a non-obsolete SCSI HBA that works for them by > deprecating -drive if=scsi. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Missing: update doc (qemu-options.hx), and possibly qemu-iotests/051. Will fix.
