Re: [libvirt-users] Pool, iSCSI and guest start

On 03/17/2010 06:38 AM, Nicolas Greneche wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Former user of Xen and newbie in kvm/qemu/libvirt stuff, I give it a try > on my network ;-) > > I need to run a VM with iSCSI target attached. > > I did it this way : > > 1) Creation of iscsi pool (equa.xml) : > > <pool type="iscsi"> > <name>equalog</name> > <source> > <host name="10.10.0.1"/> > <device > path="iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4992c7f05-39c000000114b8fc-vglog"/> > > </source> > <target> > <path>/dev/disk/by-path</path> > </target> > </pool> > > This pool start smoothly (when open-iscsi started), no problems. An > entry is created in /dev/disk/by-path/ related to iscsi target. > > 2) I flagged it autostart : > > root@sandi:~# virsh pool-autostart equalog > Pool equalog marked as autostarted > > root@sandi:~# virsh pool-list > Name State Autostart > - ----------------------------------------- > equalog active yes > > 3) In my guest VM, I have following section : > > <disk type='block' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu'/> > <source > dev='/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.10.0.1:3260-iscsi-iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4992c7f05-39c000000114b8fc-vglog-lun-0'/> > > <target dev='vdc' bus='virtio'/> > <alias name='virtio2'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' > function='0x0'/> > </disk> > > When I start VM, iscsi target is availaible. > > The snag is that when I reboot the host, the pool is not automatically > started (making it impossible to autostart VM relying on this iscsi > volume). > > I verified that open-iscsi is started first. Startup script is localised > in /etc/rcS.d which is prior to /etc/rc2.d (my default runlevel). > Libvirtd is started in rc2.d and not mentionned in rcS.d. > > My questions are : > - - Is this the correct way to attach iscsi volume to a guest ? > - - Did I missed something to have iscsi pool autostart working at boot > time ? You're doing everything right, so it's odd that the pool isn't autostarting. Does the pool autostart properly if you restart libvirtd when the system is fully booted? Dave

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