I&#39;m missing something.<div><br></div><div>The purpose of NPIV (as I understand it) is to give a guest OS an HBA that it can scan, play with new luns, etc all without making changes to the physical server(s) the guest is living in currently.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, I can&#39;t find a way to either have the guest&#39;s XML config create the HBA or for the physical server to successfully GIVE the HBA to the guest.  I can give disks all day long, but I can&#39;t give the HBA to the guest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It seems like libvirt and virsh can only create the vHBA on the physical box, which defeats the purpose of working with NPIV then... I can just present the same luns to the REAL WWPNs of the physical boxes that need access, setup multipathd to give /dev/mapper names in a consistent manner, and give the raw disks to the guests.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I really want to get the physical KVM servers out of the &#39;storage management&#39; game aside from the basic OSes of the guests.  How can I do that?</div><div><br></div><div>(or am I missing something?)</div>
<div><br></div><div>--Jason</div>