Seems like different libvirt versions generate a storage volume name in different format. We would like to learn how libvirt names a storage volume under a block based storage pool. So that we may properly extract the LUN identifier out of the volume name for now and in the future. On host A loaded with libvirt 0.8.7 # virsh vol-list SanPool1 Name Path ----------------------------------------- unit:0:0:11 /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x600a0b800013071a000035ec4e32b832 On host B loaded with libvirt 0.8.1 # virsh vol-list SanPool1 Name Path ----------------------------------------- 1.0.0.0 /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x60080e500017e1d40000d0b74d873b13 Regards, --Yih Yih-Herng Chuang IBM Center for Microsoft Technologies 3600 Carillon Point, Kirkland WA 98033 (DID) (425) 803-7285 (TIE) 977-7285 YihHerng@us.ibm.com