From: Andrea Bolognani Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:36:29 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs: Clarify use of virtio-scsi model for SCSI controllers X-Git-Tag: v7.1.0-rc1~532 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85523cfae0be52868df26463650dd8e40a156fb9;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git docs: Clarify use of virtio-scsi model for SCSI controllers The current formulation can lead people to believe SCSI controllers only allow the virtio-scsi model, but really the only difference is that you have to use model='virtio-scsi' where you would use model='virtio' for another device. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark --- diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst index dd197d8f6a..af540391db 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst @@ -3428,8 +3428,10 @@ machine types, accept the following ``model`` values: While the information outlined above applies to most virtio devices, there are a few exceptions: -- for SCSI controllers, ``virtio-scsi`` must be used instead of ``virtio`` for - backwards compatibility reasons; +- for SCSI controllers, there is no ``virtio`` model available due to + historical reasons: use ``virtio-scsi`` instead, which behaves the same as + ``virtio`` does for other devices. Both ``virtio-transitional`` and + ``virtio-non-transitional`` work with SCSI controllers; - some devices, such as GPUs and input devices (keyboard, tablet and mouse), are only defined in the virtio 1.0 spec and as such don't have a transitional variant: the only accepted model is ``virtio``, which will result in a