Re: about NPIV with qemu-kvm.

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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
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