[libvirt] iscsi target name including colon

Libaiqing libaiqing at huawei.com
Fri Jul 19 09:24:19 UTC 2013


Hi jan,
   Thankyou for your reply.

   I will try to hack libiscsi.

Regards,
baiqing

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ján Tomko [mailto:jtomko at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 3:30 PM
> To: Libaiqing
> Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [libvirt] iscsi target name including colon
> 
> On 07/19/2013 03:52 AM, Libaiqing wrote:
> ...
> >
> > Then qemu reports an error:
> >     process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive
> file=iscsi://186.100.8.121:3262/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.fedora121.x8664
> %3Asn.712a3704dac7,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw: Failed to
> parse URL :
> iscsi://186.100.8.121:3262/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.fedora121.x8664%3A
> sn.712a3704dac7
> > qemu-kvm: -drive
> file=iscsi://186.100.8.121:3262/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.fedora121.x8664
> %3Asn.712a3704dac7,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw: could not
> open disk image
> iscsi://186.100.8.121:3262/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.fedora121.x8664%3A
> sn.712a3704dac7: Invalid argument
> >
> >
> > The rootcause is the colon in iscsi target name
> iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.fedora121.x8664:sn.712a3704dac7  passed to
> qemu as %3A by libvirt.
> >
> > Is this an issue?
> >
> > Could you give me some advise to debug this problem ? I can provide more
> information if need.
> 
> Libvirt (or rather libxml2 which is used for URI formatting) escapes special
> characters, but libiscsi doesn't decode them.
> 
> This seems to be fixed in libiscsi git, but it hasn't been released yet:
> https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi/commit/e061cba1
> 
> Jan




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