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There are two ways to use a iSCSI LUN as disk source for qemu. * The LUN's path as it shows up on host, e.g. /dev/disk/by-path/ip-$ip:3260-iscsi-$iqn-fc18:iscsi.iscsi0-lun-1 * The libiscsi URI from the storage pool source element host attribute, e.g. iscsi://demo.org:6000/iqn.1992-01.com.example/1 For a "volume" type disk, if the specified "pool" is of iscsi type, we should support to use the LUN in either of above 2 ways. That's why to introduce a new XML tag "mode" for the disk source (libvirt should support iscsi pool with libiscsi, but it's another new feature, which should be done later). The "mode" can be either of "host" or "direct". Use "host" to indicate use of the LUN with the path as it shows up on host. Use "direct" to indicate to use it with the source pool host URI (future patches may support to use network type libvirt storage too, e.g. Ceph)
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>