Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU

[Orit Wasserman]

Looks quite good, didn't have any more comments.
We can use it for streaming with non shared storage with minor changes
(http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockMigration#ISCSI_for_non_shared_storage)
Ronnie , are you looking into ISCSI target too?

Orit

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 10:56 +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 10.09.2011 06:23, schrieb Ronnie Sahlberg:
> > List,
> > 
> > Please find a patch that adds built-in iSCSI support to QEMU when built and 
> > linked against the multiplatform iscsi initiator library at  
> > git://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi.git
> > 
> > All previous comments and suggestions have been addressed in this patch.
> > 
> > I and others have done extensive testing and used this patch extensively 
> > over the last ~6 months with great result.
> > 
> > 
> > In some situations, using a built-in iscsi inititator has benefits against 
> > mounting the LUNs on the host.
> > 
> > * Privacy: The iSCSI LUNs are private to the guest and are not visible 
> > either to the host, nor to any processes running on the host.
> > * Ease of managment : If you have very many guests and very many, thousands 
> > of, iSCSI LUNs. It is inconvenient to have to expose all LUNs to the 
> > underlying host.
> > * No root requirement. Since the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted as devices on 
> > the host, ordinary users can set up and use iSCSI resources without the 
> > need for root privilege on the host to map the devices to local scsi 
> > devices.
> > 
> > 
> > Please merge this patch to master or explain how I should change the patch 
> > so that it becomes acceptable for inclusion into QEMU.
> 
> Orit, I think you could be interested in reviewing this patch?
> 
> Kevin
>