On 04/15/2016 07:21 AM, Basin Ilya wrote: > Hi. > I was expecting that qemu-kvm process would connect directly to iSCSI > server, but https://libvirt.org/storage.html#StorageBackendISCSI says > that it wants symlinks in `/dev/disk/by-path` . > > That suggests it relies on Linux iSCSI client that will act as mediator > and create block devices. > > So is "iSCSI volume pools" just a convenience thing giving no > performance gain compared to attaching block devices to my guest? Correct, iscsi pools are just a wrapper around mounting iscsi on your host. That said, libvirt via qemu supports directly connecting to iscsi as well, configured via the VM XML. Search for protocol='iscsi' in https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html - Cole _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
