Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Re: [libvirt] RE: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] virt-mem tools version 0.2.8 released

Richard W.M. Jones
2008-08-11T08:20:14Z

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:39:34PM +1200, james wrote:
>> This is what libvirt gives you (and lots more, eg. secure remote
>> access to hypervisors, bindings to Perl & many other languages, etc.).
>> Can you be more specfic about what you couldn't do with libvirt?
>
> I can give you such an example although I confess it could be due to my
> lack of understanding of the libvirt config. I have tried and tried to
> use libvirt to configure VMs within KVM using scsi disk images. Usually
> when tinkering/experimenting with RAID setups. It just will not take it.
> Starting a KVM based VM from the command line with the appropriate
> settings and I have no problems. This inability to use scsi within
> libvirt has been extremely frustrating until I took the plunge and went
> to to kvm command line.
>
> However if you can point out an example xml config for a VM using scsi
> disk images that works then that would be very cool

Dan's probably the best one to help here, but our example configs are
here:

http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html

Rich.

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