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@redhat.com>
QEMU 1.3 and newer support an alternative URI-based syntax to specify
the location of an NBD server. Libvirt can keep on using the old
syntax in general, but only the URI syntax supports IPv6 addresses.
The URI syntax also supports relative paths to Unix sockets. These
should never be used but aren't explicitly blocked either by the parser,
so support it just in case.
The URI syntax is intentionally compatible with Gluster's, and the
code can be reused.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
