Re: [ovirt-users] Using Virtio-SCSI passthough on SCSI - Devices

On 04/25/2014 08:01 PM, Daniel Helgenberger wrote: > > > On Fr, 2014-04-25 at 17:19 +0200, Jiri Belka wrote: >> >> On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:40:09 +0000 >> Daniel Helgenberger <daniel.helgenberger(a)m-box.de&gt; wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish this? In my particular >>> setup, I need a FC tape drive passed though to the vm. >>> Note, passing throuh FC - LUNs works flawlessly. >>> >>> If I understood Virtio -SCSI correctly, this should be possible from >>> libvirt's part. >> >> >> I can be wrong but my understanding is that dm-mpio works on block >> layer thus it does not support multipath for tapes/cd-devices. >> >> But I could be wrong, I got this info from an OpenBSD paper comparing >> SCSI multipath implementation. >> >> j. > > No, I think so too - it does not support tape drive as such (but I could > set up a tape library as a LUN to use it with LTFS for instance) > > The point being is another. VirtIO SCSI should be able to pass through > any scsi device; like tape drives end enclosures. I know this works in > Proxmox: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives > > Does it work in oVirt, too? In the GUI I only see block LUNs from DM. i suggest you try making it work via libivrt first, then we can compare to the xml passed to the guest, workaround with a custom hook, etc. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users