[fedora-virt] virtio-scsi with libvirt

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:16:28AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 01/05/2013 02:30 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > Note that I didn't have to specify the alias for the controller, I just
> > added "<controller type='scsi' model='virtio-scsi' index='0'/>", and
> > libvirt did the rest.  I haven't tested yet, but it looks like it will
> > be possible to use virt-manager to add SCSI disks once the controller
> > has been added.
> > 
> > Now to see if my virtual RHEV hypervisors can use these as "Fibre
> > Channel" storage.
> 
> For anyone living vicariously through my virtualized RHEV experiment:
> 
> 1.  Get a life!
> 
> 2.  The answers are YES and YES.  Once the virtio-scsi controller has
>     been added to a guest by editing the XML, SCSI disks can be added
>     through the virt-manager GUI.  And RHEV is perfectly happy to use a
>     shared virtio-scsi disk as "Fibre Channel" storage.
> 
> It seems that there's no documentation on adding virtio-scsi *disks* out
> there, because adding the controller is the only tricky part (for a very
> small value of tricky).

A bit late in the day, but you can also compare and contrast how
libguestfs adds virtio-scsi controllers/disks:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/src/launch-libvirt.c

Rich.

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