[libvirt] [PATCH Repost] esx: Allow 'lsisas1068' as SCSI controller type

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:38:00PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Extend tests to cover all SCSI controller types and document the
> new type.
> 
> The lsisas1068 SCSI controller type was added in ESX 4.0. The VMX
> parser reports an error when this controller type is present. This
> makes virsh dumpxml fail for every domain that uses this controller
> type.
> 
> This patch fixes this and adds lsisas1068 to the list of accepted
> SCSI controller types.
> 
> Reported by Jonathan Kelley.
> ---
> 
> This is a repost of this patch [1].
> 
> DanPB pointed out that the ESX driver is currently abusing the <driver>
> element to expose the SCSI controller type.
> 
> Now we have the <controller> element to explicitly model stuff like
> SCSI controllers in the domain XML config. The ESX driver doesn't
> support this yet. Also there is currently no way to express the SCSI
> controller type in the <controller> element. Something like the model
> attribute for NICs need to be added here too.
> 
> So I'd like to push this patch now in order to have the immediate
> problem of failing virsh dumpxml fixed in libvirt 0.8.0. I already got
> asked offlist when this problem will be fixed.
> 
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-March/msg00548.html

  Well the abuse is already in place for lsilogic and buslogic,
so okay for pushing this now, but please let's fix the XML format
problem after the release,

  ACK,

Daniel

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