Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 10/13/09 07:35, James Bottomley wrote:
>> Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called
>> vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks.
>>     
> I'm still curious to know what the 'p' in the name stands for.  Surely
> this is a fully virtual driver, not a paravirtual one?
>   

I would assume that "pv" does stand for paravirtual.  The terminology is
a bit screwy: "fully virtualized" means that the device looks like a
real hardware device that is being emulated.  "Paravirtualized" means
that it is a completely virtual device which isn't an emulation of
anything; the guests know this this and talk to it accordingly.

    J

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