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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] iscsi: add iSCSI block device support
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ronnie sahlberg |
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] iscsi: add iSCSI block device support |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:17:50 +1100 |
List,
Please find attached a gzipped patch against master that adds support of iSCSI.
It is sent in gz format because of its uncompressed size, >100kb.
This patch adds support for attaching directorly to iSCSI resources,
both DISK/SBC and CDROM/MMC, without the need to make the devices
visible to the host.
There are two parts to this support :
./block/iscsi/* : This is a fully async iscsi initiator client
library. This directory does not contain any QEMU specific code with
the hope it can later be re-used by other projects that also need
iscsi-initiator functionality.
./block/iscsi.c : The QEMU block driver that intergrates the
iscsi-initiator library with QEMU.
The iscsi library is incomplete, but sufficient to interoperate with
TGTD. With trivial enhancements(target-NOP) it should work with most
other targets too.
The goal is to expand the library to add more features over time, so
that over time it will become a full-blown iscsi initiator
implementation as a library.
Some features that should be added are
* support for target initiated NOP. TGTD does not use these but some
other targets do.
* support for uni- and bi-directional CHAP authentication.
* additional iscsi functionality
The syntax to specify a iscsi resource is
iscsi://<host>[:port]/<target-iqn-name>/<lun>
Example :
-drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1:3260/iqn.ronnie.test/1
-cdrom iscsi://127.0.0.1:3260/iqn.ronnie.test/2
Please review and/or commit.
regards
ronnie sahlberg
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