[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node] Small patch to find disks if hal doesn't return one.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:41:41AM -0500, Perry Myers wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:32:29PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> >>If hal does not return any devices with the storage capability, and
> >>that's of type disk and block, then the script will grab all devices
> >>that meets the pattern /dev/[shv]d? and show them.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce at redhat.com>
> >
> >Errr, Why ?  If HAL doesn't find the disk, then we need to fix
> >HAL and not go poking around in /dev ourselves. 
> 
> Agree, but this is a short term fix.  This only happens for virtio based 
> disks (i.e. vda) on the 'fake' Node.

AFAIK  HAL copes with VirtIO just fine - it has to because Anaconda asks
HAL for list of disks when it installs an OS.  What HAL version do you
see failures on ?

Daniel
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