[libvirt] [PATCH 08/13] qemu: add support for libiscsi

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:44:27PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> libiscsi provides a userspace iSCSI initiator.
> 
> The main advantage over the kernel initiator is that it is very
> easy to provide different initiator names for VMs on the same host.
> Thus libiscsi supports usage of persistent reservations in the VM,
> which otherwise would only be possible with NPIV.
> 
> libiscsi uses "iscsi" as the scheme, not "iscsi+tcp".  We can change
> this in the tests (while remaining backwards-compatible manner, because
> QEMU uses TCP as the default transport for both Gluster and NBD).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tests/qemuargv2xmltest.c                           |  1 +
>  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-gluster.args   |  2 +-
>  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-iscsi.args     |  1 +
>  ...ml2argv-disk-drive-network-nbd-ipv6-export.args |  2 +-
>  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-nbd-ipv6.args  |  2 +-
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  2 +
>  7 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-iscsi.args

ACK


Daniel
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