On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:13:05PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 22/02/2017 15:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:10:00PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 22/02/2017 14:46, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 22/02/2017 11:05, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>>>> I'd also suggest just assigning the whole vHBA > >>>> > >>>> What do you mean by "assigning the whole vHBA"? There is no concept of > >>>> a vHBA as e.g. a PCI virtual function. > >>> > >>> I thought we had a generic SCSI passthrough capability that could > >>> attach to the SCSI vHBA in the host, or am I mis-remembering ? > >> > >> No, the SCSI passthrough capability attaches to a single device. > >> > >> With Fibre Channel, zoning allows you to configure the set of visible > >> disks for each machine (or more accurately for each WWPN and/or WWNN) at > >> the storage fabric level. So the idea is to just configure the > >> WWPN/WWNN and let libvirt handle the discovery of disks underneath. The > >> alternative is to do it in both oVirt and Nova though, as mentioned > >> elsewhere in the thread, libvirt could still provide a udev wrapper. > > > > What do you mean by "provide a udev wrapper" ? > > Expose udev events in a way that is friendly to someone who is consuming > the nodedev API. We've got that support already. Apps can register to receive events whenever a virNodeDevice is added or removed from a host, as well as if its config changes. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
