Re: Question about skipping virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress

> From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: Motohiro Kawahito <JL25131(a)jp.ibm.com&gt; > Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com > Date: 2021/07/16 17:22 > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question about skipping virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:01:50PM +0900, Motohiro Kawahito wrote: > > > From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > > > To: Motohiro Kawahito <JL25131(a)jp.ibm.com&gt; > > > Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com > > > Date: 2021/07/16 00:42 > > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question about skipping > > virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress > > > > > > > > With the exception of paravirtualized Xen guests, this field in > > > libvirt XML is *completely* independant of the guest assigned > > > device name. > > > > > > eg the XML might say /dev/vda, but the guest might decde to > > > call it /dev/sda, or /dev/whatever or really absolutely > > > anything. > > > > Thank you very much for this information! I understand it. > > However, I don't understand how we can pass the target device information > > (e.g. 0A80) without an error. Do you know how to do it? > > > > My question was not good, so I opened another thread (How do we specify > > disk device names for non-Linux VMs in XML?). > > There is nothing that needs passing. The guest OS decides its naming > however it wants to. We need to control device number from user. This device number would be used later, such as detach-disk. Can we pass device number from outside?