On 12/07/2016 08:16 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
On 11/22/2016 02:16 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
On 11/21/2016 10:58 PM, Eric Farman wrote:
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
This will get squashed in with the conf patch. I'll also generate the news.html.in entry:
<li>vhost-scsi: Add support scsi_host hostdev passthrough<br/> Add the capability to pass through a scsi_host HBA and the associated LUNs to the guest. </li>
ACK -
I'll push these in a bit, just seeing what I get on my test system... Of course I'm also curious what would happen if I try to pass through a vHBA ;-)...
I have unsuccessfully tried it, but not sure how to correctly specify the vHBA in domXML.
First, create a vHBA: cat vhba.xml <device> <parent_wwpn>2100001b32847342</parent_wwpn> <parent_wwnn>2000001b32847342</parent_wwnn> <capability type='scsi_host'> <capability type='fc_host'> <wwnn>9990100000000001</wwnn> <wwpn>9990000000000001</wwpn> </capability> </capability> </device> virsh nodedev-create vhba.xml
(@John: Notice I'm using your "Allow creation of vHBA by parent_wwnn/wwpn or fabric_name" series. I'll try to respond with review comments on that series tomorrow.)
Add the vHBA to domain config using a variant of Eric's example: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi_host'> <source protocol='vhost' wwpn='naa.9990000000000001'/> <address type='ccw' cssid='0xfe' ssid='0x0' devno='0x1000'/> </hostdev>
Start the VM: virsh start test error: Failed to start domain test error: Path '/sys/kernel/config/target/vhost//naa.5001405df3e54061' is not accessible: No such file or directory
It looks like this patch series only handles scsi_host created with targetcli, but I didn't look at all the patches closely. Is it possible to use vhost-scsi with NPIV vport (vHBA)? If so, any pointers on how to specify the vHBA in <hostdev> element?
I've been buried by other things, but didn't want to ignore completely... Unfortunately I haven't found a way to use configure w/ vHBA either - I really was really hoping something could be done. It would have been so nice to just use XML that would include the scsi_hostN of the vHBA. I need to find the time to work through what targetcli does - I think it creates another scsi_hostN which is essentially what is used. That'd be similar enough to what vport_create does. Then it would be (hah!) just a matter of some code ;-) perhaps... The example Eric has in the cover used multipath which is not something I generally configure/use. I found some example using google to not use multipath, but didn't spend too much time with it. I got it to do something, but then got pinged to work on something else (you know how that goes!). John