[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH pve-docs] Document new SSD emulation feature

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Sat Nov 10 15:56:38 CET 2018


On 11/10/18 8:05 AM, Nick Chevsky wrote:
> This change documents the recently added SSD emulation feature for
> IDE, SATA, and SCSI drives, which consists of:
> 
> * an `ssd` qm.conf flag [1], and
> * an "SSD emulation" drive option in pve-manager. [2]
> 
> [1] https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=commit;h=6c875f9f315f2dc7a0a3a988622c2efdf089b171
> [2] https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-manager.git;a=commit;h=6e40f7b0347e4275f6bcc7a484f930d4345d1c8e
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Chevsky <nchevsky at gmail.com>
> ---
>  api-viewer/apidata.js | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  qm.1-synopsis.adoc    | 12 ++++----
>  qm.adoc               |  5 ++++
>  qm.conf.5-opts.adoc   | 18 ++++++++++--
>  4 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> [...]
>
> diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc
> index 4fc8371..c752900 100644
> --- a/qm.adoc
> +++ b/qm.adoc
> @@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ when the filesystem of a VM marks blocks as unused after removing files, the
>  emulated SCSI controller will relay this information to the storage, which will
>  then shrink the disk image accordingly.
>  
> +If you would like a drive to be presented to the guest as a solid-state drive
> +rather than a rotational hard disk, you can set the *SSD emulation* option on
> +that drive. There is no requirement that the underlying storage actually be
> +backed by SSDs; this feature can be used with physical media of any type.
> +
>  .IO Thread
>  The option *IO Thread* can only be used when using a disk with the
>  *VirtIO* controller, or with the *SCSI* controller, when the emulated controller

applied, for the next time you could also only sent the "manual" changes, we normally run
the 'update-static' target our self before bumping, which adds the whole schema/synopsis
info automatically.

thanks!




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