So your Windows VM is managed by libvirt directly? virt-manager/virsh? Then I think it should be supported, never tried that myself. Try searching for 'libvirt pci passthrough' and/or ask on some libvirt mailing list. If it's something else, please give more details - explain what you want/need to run where, OSes, virt tools/products and versions, etc. Best, ----- Original Message -----
From: "VONDRA Alain" <AVONDRA@unicef.fr> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi@redhat.com> Cc: "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi@hawai.it>, users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:54:55 PM Subject: RE: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
I use libvirt for this backup server, and I also have a cluster on oVirt, but for this case I only want to use a virtualized Windows 2008 to in case restore old tape created on our old Symantec BackUp Exec 2010 software.
Alain VONDRA Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information Direction Administrative et Financière +33 1 44 39 77 76 UNICEF France 3 rue Duguay Trouin 75006 PARIS www.unicef.fr
-----Message d'origine----- De : Yedidyah Bar David [mailto:didi@redhat.com] Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 14:45 À : VONDRA Alain Cc : Stefano Danzi; users@ovirt.org Objet : Re: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
I thought that if you ask on users@ovirt, you use ovirt...
What do you use, then? iiuc libvirt already supports that.
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From: "VONDRA Alain" <AVONDRA@unicef.fr> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi@redhat.com>, "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi@hawai.it> Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:39:22 PM Subject: RE: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
I can't unlikely take this solution, because I don't use oVirt and I have to use a CentOS 6.6 version because o f the kernel version 2.6 supported by Acronis Backup Thanks
Alain VONDRA Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information Direction Administrative et Financière +33 1 44 39 77 76 UNICEF France 3 rue Duguay Trouin 75006 PARIS www.unicef.fr
-----Message d'origine----- De : users-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] De la part de Yedidyah Bar David Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 11:24 À : Stefano Danzi Cc : users@ovirt.org Objet : Re: [ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
Another future option, targeted for 3.6, is pci passthrough [1] [2].
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/hostdev_passthrough [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099760
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From: "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi@hawai.it> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:09:01 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
You could share a tape library as iSCSI target and connet it to the VM. I've never do a similar thing but internet give some suggestions:
http://scst.sourceforge.net/target_iscsi.html http://www.kraftkennedy.com/virtualizing-scsi-tape-drives-with-an-is cs i-bridge/
Il 12/02/2015 10.40, VONDRA Alain ha scritto:
Hi, I'd like to know if there is any solution to enable a Smart Array P212 PCIe card over a Windows VM ? I've a Backup Acronis Software to install, and I'd prefer to install it on a CentOS distrib, and not on a Windows 2008 R2. Our old backup software is Symantec Backup Exec and we have to keep the possibility to restore old tapes on demand. So the solution to keep a sleeping Windows VM, and have the way to enable it, just to restore a tape would be perfect. I've tried to add a new hardware with virt-manager, but this action just freeze the manager, and I need to restart the libvirtd service to unlock it. If anybody knows a way to do that, I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance
Alain VONDRA Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information Direction Administrative et Financière +33 1 44 39 77 76 UNICEF France 3 rue Duguay Trouin 75006 PARIS www.unicef.fr
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