[Libguestfs] [PATCH] virt-v2v: Remove iface:ide parameter (RHBZ#895898)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:36:19PM -0600, Mike Latimer wrote:
> The iface parameter makes more sense now, but there is still a
> concern over the requirement of an IDE driver, and any potential
> performance differences between that driver and virtio-scsi. In
> addition, there is still the concern about what mode the guestfs
> backend is in. The whole issue could be avoided by just dropping the
> parameter, and essentially forcing virtio-scsi. On the other hand, I
> don't have any benchmarks to show a problem, so maybe it's not a
> valid concern.

We're not able to drop the parameter, since that would break backwards
compatibility.  However my understanding is that guestconv won't use
"iface" at all and will use another method to convert the problematic
guest, perhaps patching the mkinitrd or dropping in a replacement.
You'll need to ask Matt Booth about that.

Rich.

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