From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: ya su <suya94335@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <chellwig@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Subject: Re: about NPIV with qemu-kvm.
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:26:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA79A0E.8030604@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+tHM2Hw4jzTNmNtD3ttVpyCFCHnFB9USWK5XsUK6vqGJVmGRg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/2011 06:40 AM, ya su wrote:
> hi, hannes:
>
> I want to use NPIV with qemu-kvm, I issued the following command:
>
> echo '1111222233334444:5555666677778888' >
> /sys/class/fc_host/host0/vport_create
>
> and it will produce a new host6 and one vport succesfully, but it
> does not create any virtual hba pci device. so I don't know how to
> assign the virtual host to qemu-kvm.
>
Well, you can't. There is no mechanism for. When using NPIV you need
to pass in the individual LUNs via eg virtio-blk.
> from your this mail, does array will first need to assign a lun to
> this vport? and through this new created disk, like device /dev/sdf,
> then I add qemu-kvm with -drive file=/dev/sdf,if=virtio... arguments?
>
Yes. That's what you need to do.
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: ya su <suya94335@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <chellwig@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: about NPIV with qemu-kvm.
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:26:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA79A0E.8030604@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+tHM2Hw4jzTNmNtD3ttVpyCFCHnFB9USWK5XsUK6vqGJVmGRg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/2011 06:40 AM, ya su wrote:
> hi, hannes:
>
> I want to use NPIV with qemu-kvm, I issued the following command:
>
> echo '1111222233334444:5555666677778888' >
> /sys/class/fc_host/host0/vport_create
>
> and it will produce a new host6 and one vport succesfully, but it
> does not create any virtual hba pci device. so I don't know how to
> assign the virtual host to qemu-kvm.
>
Well, you can't. There is no mechanism for. When using NPIV you need
to pass in the individual LUNs via eg virtio-blk.
> from your this mail, does array will first need to assign a lun to
> this vport? and through this new created disk, like device /dev/sdf,
> then I add qemu-kvm with -drive file=/dev/sdf,if=virtio... arguments?
>
Yes. That's what you need to do.
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: ya su <suya94335@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <chellwig@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] about NPIV with qemu-kvm.
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:26:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA79A0E.8030604@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+tHM2Hw4jzTNmNtD3ttVpyCFCHnFB9USWK5XsUK6vqGJVmGRg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/2011 06:40 AM, ya su wrote:
> hi, hannes:
>
> I want to use NPIV with qemu-kvm, I issued the following command:
>
> echo '1111222233334444:5555666677778888' >
> /sys/class/fc_host/host0/vport_create
>
> and it will produce a new host6 and one vport succesfully, but it
> does not create any virtual hba pci device. so I don't know how to
> assign the virtual host to qemu-kvm.
>
Well, you can't. There is no mechanism for. When using NPIV you need
to pass in the individual LUNs via eg virtio-blk.
> from your this mail, does array will first need to assign a lun to
> this vport? and through this new created disk, like device /dev/sdf,
> then I add qemu-kvm with -drive file=/dev/sdf,if=virtio... arguments?
>
Yes. That's what you need to do.
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-26 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 4:40 about NPIV with qemu-kvm ya su
2011-10-26 4:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " ya su
2011-10-26 5:26 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2011-10-26 5:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-10-26 5:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-10-27 12:53 ` ya su
2011-10-27 12:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " ya su
2011-10-27 12:53 ` ya su
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