[one-users] additional parameters for the DISK section

[João Pagaime]

thanks, that may be it (SCSI doesn't work because of lacking support
from the OS, IDE didn't work due to target collision identifiers with
the cd-rom (fixed that; and virt-io isn't supported on the old guest
OS)

--
João

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM, André Monteiro <andre.monteir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello João,
>
> Be aware that some OS don't have a libvirt version that support SCSI, like
> RHEL and CentOS.
>
> --
> André Monteiro
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM, João Pagaime <joao.pagaime at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Ruben
>>
>> got it to work with IDE, with 3 disks (the remaining IDE device is the
>> cd-rom, and that was the problem: the cd-rom and one of the disks were
>> both using the hdc hint target
>>
>> couldn't make it work with SCSI
>>
>> thanks
>> João
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:33 PM, João Pagaime <joao.pagaime at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello Ruben
>> >
>> > that's right....  TARGET doesn't seem to be working (at least with SCSI)
>> >
>> > here's a quick example:
>> >
>> > ------------- open-nebula template:
>> > ..........
>> > DISK=[
>> >   DRIVER="raw",
>> >   IMAGE_ID="82",
>> >   READONLY="no",
>> >   TARGET="sda" ]
>> > DISK=[
>> >   DRIVER="raw",
>> >   IMAGE_ID="83",
>> >   READONLY="no",
>> >   TARGET="sdb" ]
>> >
>> > ------------- libvirt generated  template:
>> > ..............
>> >                 <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>> >                         <source
>> > file='/var/lib/one//datastores/0/931/disk.1'/>
>> >                         <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
>> >                         <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='default'/>
>> >                 </disk>
>> >                 <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>> >                         <source
>> > file='/var/lib/one//datastores/0/931/disk.2'/>
>> >                         <target dev='sdb' bus='scsi'/>
>> >                         <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='default'/>
>> >                 </disk>
>> >
>> > -------------- error:
>> > ......
>> > process exited while connecting to monitor: kvm: -device
>> > lsi,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4: Parameter 'driver' expects a driver
>> > name
>> >
>> >
>> > best regards,
>> > João
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ruben S. Montero
>> > <rsmontero at opennebula.org> wrote:
>> >> Hi  João
>> >>
>> >> Yes you are right, some additional work is needed to get raw content on
>> >> specific sections. RAW will just append the content to the end of the
>> >> generated XML document.
>> >>
>> >> BTW the section you are adding is related to DISK layout, is TARGET not
>> >> working for you? Something similar is added by libvirt for each disk
>> >> based
>> >> on the target (when specified)....
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >>
>> >> Ruben
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:42 PM, João Pagaime <joao.pagaime at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> thanks for the reply
>> >>>
>> >>> didn't say the full story, sorry...
>> >>>
>> >>> the extra parameters that I need aren't "root" parameters, but instead
>> >>> must be inside a "<disk>" section, on libvirt's vm description
>> >>>
>> >>> I guess the RAW section can't be inside a DISK section
>> >>>
>> >>> best regards,
>> >>> João
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:29 PM, André Monteiro
>> >>> <andre.monteir at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hello,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Just put on RAW section:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > RAW     = [
>> >>> >       TYPE  = "kvm",
>> >>> >       DATA  = "<alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
>> >>> >        <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0'
>> >>> > unit='0'/>"]
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > André Monteiro
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, João Pagaime
>> >>> > <joao.pagaime at gmail.com>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hello all
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> I'm trying to start a VM with 2 IDE ou SCSI disks on KVM. Can't use
>> >>> >> virtio, since this is a physical to virtual operation,  of an old
>> >>> >> system that doesn't support virtio
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> ths problem is that KVM/QEMU gives out an error
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> after simulating the situation with virt-manager, it seems that
>> >>> >> libvirt XML needs to indicate the  following two extra parameters
>> >>> >> (example):
>> >>> >>       <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
>> >>> >>       <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0'
>> >>> >> unit='0'/>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> is there some way to put this on open-nebula template?
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> thanks, best regards,
>> >>> >> João
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