[libvirt-users] storage pool does not support volume creation

hi,all I use iscsi create stroage pool,now i want create a volume on the pool,but encouner a error: error: Failed to create vol from volume.xml error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: storage pool does not support volume creation else replacing way to resolve this problem?? thanks

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 07:12:46PM +0800, zhijun liu wrote:
hi,all
I use iscsi create stroage pool,now i want create a volume on the pool,but encouner a error:
error: Failed to create vol from volume.xml error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: storage pool does not support volume creation
else replacing way to resolve this problem??
No, there is no standardized mechanism within the iSCSI protocol to allow creation/deletion/modification of LUNs. This all has to be done out of band using vendor specific admin interfaces :-( As such the libvirt iSCSI storage pools can only enumerate LUNs & report on their properties. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
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