<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Rene.<br>I specifically need the scsi support (virtio-scsi).<br>I do know about the virtio-block support, which results in /dev/vd* devices as you say.<br>From what I read even EL6 earlier than 6.3 does not support virtio-scsi<br><br>Alternatively, does oVirt support an emulated scsi adapter of a different type that would allow me to see scsi disks?<br><br>Regards,<br>Paul<br><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 7:23 PM, René Koch (ovido) <r.koch@ovido.at> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 09:41 +0100, Sander
Grendelman wrote:<br>> According to <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/20511" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/20511 </a>virtio<br>> work on > rhel5.3.<br>> <br>> You have to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and generate a new initrd.<br><br><br>If you're installing the OS on a VirtIO disk this is done automatically<br>by anaconda. I just installed RHEL 5 on oVirt 3.3 with VirtIO disk and<br>everything worked out of the box.<br><br><br>> <br>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sven Kieske <<a ymailto="mailto:S.Kieske@mittwald.de" href="mailto:S.Kieske@mittwald.de">S.Kieske@mittwald.de</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > afaik the rhel 5 kernel series just has not the necessary drivers for<br>> > all virtio stuff, so it's not supported and does not work, unless<br>> > you want to patch your own kernel.<br>> ><br>> > Am 13.11.2013 06:44, schrieb Paul
Jansen:<br>> >> I have just set up an Ovirt 3.3.0 install and have done a test install of Centos 6.4 in a VM. The VM was configured with an IDE drive and a virtio-scsi drive. The Centos 6.4 install sees both drives OK.<br>> >> I'm wanting to do some testing on a product that is based on EL5, but I'm finding that it cannot see the virtio-scsi drive. It does show up in the output of 'lspci', but I don't see a corresponding 'sd' device.<br>> >><br><br><br>There's no /dev/sd* device - the devices are named /dev/vd*...<br><br><br>> >> I've just tried installing Centos 5.10 and the support is not there.<br><br><br>Didn't test CentOS but RHEL 5 is working fine.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>René<br><br><br><br>> >><br>> >> Does anyone know of any tricks to allow EL5 to see the virtio-scsi device?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards<br>>
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