On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 17:16:24 +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:57 PM Joy Li <joooy.li@gmail.com> wrote:
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Comparing to state before reboot:
# virsh -r domblklist disk-mapping Target Source --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sdc - sda /rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/84dc4e3c-00fd-4263-84e8-fc246eeee6e9/images/40018b33-2b11-4d10-82e4-604a5b135fb2/40f455c4-8c92-4f8f-91c2-991b0ddfc2f5 vda /dev/mapper/3600140594af345ed76d42058f2b1a454 vdb /dev/mapper/360014050058f2f8a0474dc7a8a7cc6a5 vdc /dev/mapper/36001405b4d0c0b7544d47438b21296ef
# ls -lh /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 6 09:42 /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-b97e68b2-87ea-45ca-9 -> ../../vda lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 6 09:42 /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-d9a29187-f492-4a0d-a -> ../../vdb lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 6 09:51 /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-e801c2e4-dc2e-4c53-b -> ../../vdc
In the guest disks are mapped to the same device name.
It looks like libivrt domblklist is not correct - vdb and vdc are switched. Peter, this expected?
The names in 'virsh domblklist' are unfortunately and confusingly chosen to match the expected /dev/ device node name, but it's at kernel's discretion to name /dev/ nodes. This means that it's not guaranteed that what you see in 'virsh domblklist' will match the state in the guest. In this case I think the reorder happens as the PCI address of vdb is larger than the address of vdc. A partial workaround can be to use the data provided by the qemu guest agent, for exampe via 'virsh domfsinfo': $ virsh domfsinfo fedora32 Mountpoint Name Type Target ------------------------------------ / dm-0 xfs vda /boot vda1 xfs vda Here the guest-host matching is established via the PCI address so the 'Target' field accurately refers to the target in the VM XML. Similarly the linux kernel recently changed enumeration of SCSI devices so they are not guaranteed to match either. Libguestfs for example needed a workaround. https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/bca9b94fc593771b3801b09b95e4...