[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] Add VSCSI bus type and VSCSI controller type for pseries guest.

[Eric Blake]

On 06/04/2012 09:16 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:

>>> This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I recommended a libvirt patch.
>>> Change libvirt to add:
>>>
>>>      <controller type='scsi' index='0'>
>>>          <address type='spapr-vio'/>
>>>      </controller>
>>>
>>> when the guest XML has
>>>
>>> <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>>>      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>>>      <source file='/path/file'/>
>>>      <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
>>>      <address type='spapr-vio'/>
>>> </disk>
>>>
>>> and the guest XML doesn't already have spapr-vio<controller>.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your suggestion. :)
>>
>> I see the libvirt will always set the address type of the disk as
>> "drive". There is one drive address structure in libvirt, which
>> records the controller, bus and unit.

It sounds like we need <disk> address structure to support more than
just drive addressing, but to instead support a union of addressing
based on the type='' attribute.

>>
>> the address can be specified in the target.
>>
>>  <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>>       <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>>       <source file='/path/file'/>
>>       <target dev='sda' bus='scsi' address='spapr-vio'/>

No, I don't think you want address added to <target>, but...

>>       <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0' />

you instead want <address type='spapr-vio'/> to be something you add to
your XML to force libvirt to then populate the remaining attributes and
auto-instantiate the controller.

>>  </disk>
>>
> 
> That sounds okay to me, bug maybe eblake or danpb should sign off on it
> conceptually, since it's a new XML element.
> 
> - Cole
> 
> 

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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