> From: "Daniel P. Berrangé"
<berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Motohiro Kawahito <JL25131@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 2021/07/16 17:22
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question
about skipping virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:01:50PM +0900, Motohiro Kawahito wrote:
> > > From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Motohiro Kawahito <JL25131@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: 2021/07/16 00:42
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question about skipping
> > virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress
> > >
> >
> > > With the exception of paravirtualized Xen guests, this field
in
> > > libvirt XML is *completely* independant of the guest assigned
> > > device name.
> > >
> > > eg the XML might say /dev/vda, but the guest might decde
to
> > > call it /dev/sda, or /dev/whatever or really absolutely
> > > anything.
> >
> > Thank you very much for this information! I understand it.
> > However, I don't understand how we can pass the target device
information
> > (e.g. 0A80) without an error. Do you know how to do it?
> >
> > My question was not good, so I opened another thread (How do
we specify
> > disk device names for non-Linux VMs in XML?).
>
> There is nothing that needs passing. The guest OS decides its naming
> however it wants to.
We need to control
device number from user. This device number would be used later, such as
detach-disk. Can we pass device number from outside?
Thanks,
Motohiro Kawahito,
Commercial Systems, IBM Research - Tokyo
19-21 Nihonbashi, Hakozaki-cho Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8510, Japan
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 2021/07/16 17:21:45:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Motohiro Kawahito <JL25131@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 2021/07/16 17:22
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question
about skipping virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:01:50PM +0900, Motohiro Kawahito wrote:
> > > From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Motohiro Kawahito <JL25131@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: 2021/07/16 00:42
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question about skipping
> > virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress
> > >
> >
> > > With the exception of paravirtualized Xen guests, this field
in
> > > libvirt XML is *completely* independant of the guest assigned
> > > device name.
> > >
> > > eg the XML might say /dev/vda, but the guest might decde
to
> > > call it /dev/sda, or /dev/whatever or really absolutely
> > > anything.
> >
> > Thank you very much for this information! I understand it.
> > However, I don't understand how we can pass the target device
information
> > (e.g. 0A80) without an error. Do you know how to do it?
> >
> > My question was not good, so I opened another thread (How do
we specify
> > disk device names for non-Linux VMs in XML?).
>
> There is nothing that needs passing. The guest OS decides its naming
> however it wants to.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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