PVSCSI(4D) Devices PVSCSI(4D)

NAME

pvscsi - VMware SCSI driver

DESCRIPTION

The pvscsi driver provides a paravirtual SCSI transport, allowing
access to SCSI targets exposed to guests using VMware's
paravirtualization support. The driver supports the following
capabilities:

- Dynamic hot-plug (if supported by the host)

- Honors packet timeouts specified in scsi_pkt(9S)

- Reset of target or logical unit via scsi_reset(9F)

- Abort for individual commands via scsi_abort(9F)

- Command queueing (both tagged and untagged)

The pvscsi driver is based on iport(9), and uses a single iport per PCI
function, with a unit-address of "iport0". Children of the iport use a
unit-address with the format "target,lun", where both target and lun
are presented as hexadecimal values.

SEE ALSO

sd(4D), st(4D), scsi(5), iport(9), scsi_abort(9F), scsi_reset(9F),
scsi_pkt(9S)

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