[pve-devel] [PATCH manager v4 0/8] Display the SCSI controller type when adding a new disk

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 10/02/2017 10:37 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Since we switched to the SCSI controller in the Wizard as the recommended controller
> for hard disks (using VirtIO scsi in the backend) it was not clear for users
> that they were actually using a paravirtualized driver.
> 
> An example of user confusion:
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-hypervisor-scsi-or-virtio.36506/#post-179056
> The problem was also seen in trainings.
> 
> changes since V3:
> 
>  * Patch 4: infer that we don't need VirtIO in the controller list, as 
>  autoSelect is set to 'cdrom'.  I kept the 'autoSelect' function parameter, as
>  I am not sure of the safety of changing the IDE bus position for CD ROM drives.
>  * Patch 6: do not suspend change events, use temp variable to store SCSI type
>  * Patch 7-8: fix long lines in commit log
> 
> 
> Emmanuel Kasper (8):
>   Do not use 'autoselect' as a boolean when preselecting a bus
>   Remove unused noScsi parameter
>   Save the components we found via down() in a variable for later reuse.
>   Do not use the noVirtIO property to build the controller list
>   Add a field to show which SCSI controller type we are currently using
>   Update VM SCSI type based on iothread value when inside the wizard
>   Update VM SCSI controller type after OS selection in Wizard
>   Render full name of VirtIO Block controller
> 
>  www/manager6/form/BusTypeSelector.js    |  8 ++---
>  www/manager6/form/ControllerSelector.js | 59 +++++++++++++++------------------
>  www/manager6/qemu/CreateWizard.js       |  5 ---
>  www/manager6/qemu/HDEdit.js             | 37 ++++++++++++++++-----
>  www/manager6/qemu/OSDefaults.js         |  2 +-
>  www/manager6/qemu/OSTypeEdit.js         | 10 +-----
>  6 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
> 

Besides my complaints with using just 'Type' this looks OK for me. :)

A small nit for the case that I could convince that using
'SCSI Controller' is better and you send another version is
in a reply to [6/8].