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The vHBA/NPIV LUNs created via the udev processing of the
VPORT_CREATE command end up using the same serial value
as seen/generated by the /lib/udev/scsi_id as returned
during virStorageFileGetSCSIKey. Therefore, in order to
generate a unique enough key to be used when adding the
LUN as a volume during virStoragePoolObjAddVol a more
unique key needs to be generated for an NPIV volume.
The problem is illustrated by the following example, where
scsi_host5 is a vHBA used with the following LUNs:
$ lsscsi -tg
...
[5:0:4:0] disk fc:0x5006016844602198,0x101f00 /dev/sdh /dev/sg23
[5:0:5:0] disk fc:0x5006016044602198,0x102000 /dev/sdi /dev/sg24
...
Calling virStorageFileGetSCSIKey would return:
/lib/udev/scsi_id --device /dev/sdh --whitelisted --replace-whitespace /dev/sdh
350060160c460219850060160c4602198
/lib/udev/scsi_id --device /dev/sdh --whitelisted --replace-whitespace /dev/sdi
350060160c460219850060160c4602198
Note that althrough /dev/sdh and /dev/sdi are separate LUNs, they
end up with the same serial number used for the vol->key value.
When virStoragePoolFCRefreshThread calls virStoragePoolObjAddVol
the second LUN fails to be added with the following message
getting logged:
virHashAddOrUpdateEntry:341 : internal error: Duplicate key
To resolve this, virStorageFileGetNPIVKey will use a similar call
sequence as virStorageFileGetSCSIKey, except that it will add the
"--export" option to the call. This results in more detailed output
which needs to be parsed in order to formulate a unique enough key
to be used. In order to be unique enough, the returned value will
concatenate the target port as returned in the "ID_TARGET_PORT"
field from the command to the "ID_SERIAL" value.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: