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Bye Markus
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Betreff: Connecting disks to controller virtio-scsi of qemu/kvm
Datum: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:37:06 +0100
Von: chickenmarkus(a)freenet.de
An: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com
Hello,
I try to use the virtio-scsi driver to use my disks. But my setup at first:
* in general Debian Wheezy
* Kernel: 3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64
(
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64)
* Qemu-KVM: 1.7.0 (
http://packages.debian.org/jessie/qemu-kvm)
* Virsh 1.2.1 (
http://packages.debian.org/jessie/libvirt-bin)
The new kernel and dirty things from Jessie are for discard support
(also not working with current configuration despite thin volumes with
working discard). Once I have the this "new" qemu version, why not to
use virtio...
Every disk with target bus "scsi" gets an own scsi-hd device. Libvirt
ignores the scsi controller of type virtio-scsi.
Here is a XML snippet:
<devices>
<controller type='scsi' model='virtio-scsi'
index="0"/>
<disk type="block" device="disk">
<source dev="/dev/ssd0/sarabi"/>
<driver discard="unmap"/>
<target dev="sda" bus="scsi"/>
<address type="drive" controller="0" bus=0/>
</disk>
</devices>
This creates the virtio-scsi controller (verified by lspci in guest) but
do not "connect" the disks to it. The resulting command line looks
following:
kvm [...] -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive
file=/dev/ssd0/sarabi,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=raw,discard=unmap
-device
scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=2
[...]
How get my disk to run over virtio-scsi? Or did I found something like a
bug?
Bye Markus