Re: [Engine-devel] Question about the attribute lunType (LUNs)

-----Original Message----- From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim@redhat.com] Sent: terça-feira, 30 de julho de 2013 11:15 To: Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org; Leonardo Bianconi; Vitor de Lima; Federico Simoncelli Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Question about the attribute lunType (LUNs) On 07/30/2013 05:13 PM, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim@redhat.com] >> Sent: terça-feira, 30 de julho de 2013 07:12 >> To: Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa >> Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org; Leonardo Bianconi >> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Question about the attribute lunType >> (LUNs) >> >> On 07/29/2013 09:06 PM, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> The QEMU/KVM on IBM POWER does not support iSCSI yet. This requires >>> the implementation of methods that evaluate if a Disk is a iSCSI LUN >>> or not, in order to avoid its use in this specific architecture. >>> Looks like this can be determined by the attribute lunType (which is >>> of the type StorageType, an Enum) of the class LUNs. But when I >>> retrieve the object, the attribute lunType has the value "UNKNOWN", >>> even if I've setted it with another value. In the class >>> LunDAODbFacadeImpl there is not a call to the "entity.setLunType" >> method. >>> >>> Does anyone know how to retrieve the attribute lunType? Is the >> "UNKNOW" >>> value a bug? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Leonardo Bianconi/Vitor de Lima/Gustavo Pedrosa >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Engine-devel mailing list >>> Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel >>> >> >> Gustavo - what are you trying to achieve exactly? not allowing iscsi >> storage domains for ppc, or direct lun type disks (or something else)? >> >> Thanks, >> Itamar > > > > Hello Itamar, > > The QEMU/KVM on IBM POWER does not support direct LUN disks (i.e. - drive file=iscsi://ip_address/target/1), so this kind of device cannot be available on the frontend. > > Thanks, > Leonardo Bianconi/Vitor de Lima/Gustavo Pedrosa > i could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure direct lun disks in ovirt are done by the host doing the iscsi connection, and mounting the disk as a regular block device to the guest?