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| author | aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> | 2008-12-04 19:52:44 +0000 |
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| committer | aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> | 2008-12-04 19:52:44 +0000 |
| commit | 6e02c38dadfe4cf02b0da6135adfd8d9352b90e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 6de8b1fa9342550d2c7da2be7aef83b80a17a4b0 /qemu-doc.texi | |
| parent | 967f97fa00b2d301584d08c614d446423c65c15a (diff) | |
Add virtio-blk support
Virtio-blk is a paravirtual block device based on VirtIO. It can be used by
specifying the if=virtio parameter to the -drive parameter.
When using -enable-kvm, it can achieve very good performance compared to IDE or
SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5870 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-doc.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-doc.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 7d87085983..f2c56ce0e0 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ this drive. If the filename contains comma, you must double it (for instance, "file=my,,file" to use file "my,file"). @item if=@var{interface} This option defines on which type on interface the drive is connected. -Available types are: ide, scsi, sd, mtd, floppy, pflash. +Available types are: ide, scsi, sd, mtd, floppy, pflash, virtio. @item bus=@var{bus},unit=@var{unit} These options define where is connected the drive by defining the bus number and the unit id. |