[Users] info on virtio-scsi

[Daniel Erez]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "a ludas" <a.ludas at gmail.com>, "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 11:06:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] info on virtio-scsi
> 
> On 11/23/2013 01:16 AM, a.ludas at gmail.com wrote:
> > For pre-existing VMs you have to enable it in the VM-Edit dialog first.
> >
> > Edit VM - Show Adv. Options - Resource Alloc. - Virtio-SCSI Enabled
> >
> > After that step you can change your disk from IDE/Virtio to Virtio-SCSI
> 
> daniel - maybe the disk edit dialog should hint about this action needed?

The described scenario indeed exposes a confusing situation that affects
upgrading oVirt 3.3.0 to 3.3.1 - as the new flag has been added into 3.3.1
and is true by default. So either a hint in the disk dialog or the VM dialog
when upgrading cluster version.

> 
> >
> >
> > -----Original message-----
> >> From:Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Friday 22nd November 2013 23:55
> >> To: Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: users <users at ovirt.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] info on virtio-scsi
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Itamar Heim  wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> oh, that's strange.
> >>> derez/roy - no virtio-iscsi definition for .el6 VM?
> >>
> >> Actually I don't think so.
> >> I have tried creating a new rh el 6.x x86_64 vm and at disk creation I
> >> do see virtio-scsi as an option.
> >> But for this preexisting VM I don't see it when I try to add. Tried
> >> both in powered on state and in powered off.
> >> See here difference between c6 and c5 dynamic xml in /var/run/libvirt/qemu
> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvemtSalRkTTZlV1k/edit?usp=sharing
> >>
> >> And here for qemu command line generated:
> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvOHZrTHduN1ZCUFU/edit?usp=sharing
> >>
> >> Gianluca
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