On 08/08/2011 04:37 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
Hi,
I would like to be able to configure VMs running off dm-crypt devices that were unlocked in the host. Unlocked dm-crypt devices show up in /dev/mapper/devicename, with devicename being the second parameter given to cryptsetup luksOpen.
The LVM storage pool type insists on searching in /dev/vgname and cannot be tricked into reading /dev/mapper by giving it a fake VG named mapper; the LVM storage pool type "dir" mishandles /dev/mapper/control ("illegal seek").
Is there a workaround to be able to use such devices in virt-manager without having to define a single storage pool for every device used?
Greetings Marc
cc-ing virt-tool-list Latest virt-manager-0.9.0 allows adding a libvirt mpath pool which might be what you're looking for. If you don't have that version you can try configuring it on the command line with virsh. Some more info: http://libvirt.org/storage.html#StorageBackendMultipath - Cole