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)