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33 Vhost_scsi Sample Application
34 =============================
36 The vhost_scsi sample application implemented a simple SCSI block device,
37 which used as the backend of Qemu vhost-user-scsi device. Users can extend
38 the exist example to use other type of block device(e.g. AIO) besides
39 memory based block device. Similar with vhost-user-net device, the sample
40 application used domain socket to communicate with Qemu, and the virtio
41 ring was processed by vhost_scsi sample application.
43 The sample application reuse lots codes from SPDK(Storage Performance
44 Development Kit, https://github.com/spdk/spdk) vhost-user-scsi target,
45 for DPDK vhost library used in storage area, user can take SPDK as
51 This section shows the steps how to start a VM with the block device as
52 fast data path for critical application.
57 Follow the *Getting Started Guide for Linux* on generic info about
58 environment setup and building DPDK from source.
60 In this example, you need build DPDK both on the host and inside guest.
61 Also, you need build this example.
63 .. code-block:: console
65 export RTE_SDK=/path/to/dpdk_source
66 export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
68 cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/vhost_scsi
72 Start the vhost_scsi example
73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
75 .. code-block:: console
79 .. _vhost_scsi_app_run_vm:
84 .. code-block:: console
86 qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm \
87 -m $mem -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=$mem,\
88 mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem \
89 -drive file=os.img,if=none,id=disk \
90 -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bootindex=0 \
91 -chardev socket,id=char0,path=/tmp/vhost.socket \
92 -device vhost-user-scsi-pci,chardev=char0,bootindex=2 \
96 You must check whether your Qemu can support "vhost-user-scsi" or not,
97 Qemu v2.10 or newer version is required.
99 Vhost_scsi Common Issues
100 ------------------------
102 * vhost_scsi can not start with block size 512 Bytes:
104 Currently DPDK vhost library was designed for NET device(althrough the APIs
105 are generic now), for 512 Bytes block device, Qemu BIOS(x86 BIOS Enhanced
106 Disk Device) will enumerate all block device and do some IOs to those block
107 devices with 512 Bytes sector size. DPDK vhost library can not process such
108 scenarios(both BIOS and OS will enumerate the block device), so as a
109 workaround, the vhost_scsi example application hardcoded the block size
112 * vhost_scsi can only support the block device as fast data disk(non OS image):
114 Make sure ``bootindex=2`` Qemu option is given to vhost-user-scsi-pci device.