[ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

[Yedidyah Bar David]

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 at unicef.fr>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi at hawai.it>, users at 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.
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> Alain VONDRA
> Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information
> Direction Administrative et Financière
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Yedidyah Bar David [mailto:didi at redhat.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 14:45
> À : VONDRA Alain
> Cc : Stefano Danzi; users at ovirt.org
> Objet : Re: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
> 
> 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
> > 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 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-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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