[ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

[Yedidyah Bar David]

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

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi at hawai.it>
> To: users at 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-iscsi-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
> >
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