[libvirt-users] storage pool does not support volume creation

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 07:12:46PM +0800, zhijun liu wrote:
> hi,all
> 
> 
> I use iscsi create stroage pool,now i want create a volume on the pool,but
> encouner a error:
> 
> error: Failed to create vol from volume.xml
> error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: storage
> pool does not support volume creation
> 
> else replacing way to resolve this problem??

No, there is no standardized mechanism within the iSCSI protocol to
allow creation/deletion/modification of LUNs. This all has to be done
out of band using vendor specific admin interfaces :-(  As such the
libvirt iSCSI storage pools can only enumerate LUNs & report on their
properties.


Daniel
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