[ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

[Yedidyah Bar David]

I thought that if you ask on users at ovirt, you use ovirt...

What do you use, then? iiuc libvirt already supports that.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "VONDRA Alain" <AVONDRA at unicef.fr>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>, "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi at hawai.it>
> Cc: users at 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
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] De la part de
> Yedidyah Bar David
> Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 11:24
> À : Stefano Danzi
> Cc : users at 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
> 
> ----- 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-iscs
> > 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
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> > >
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