Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:26:38 +0200 | From | Hannes Reinecke <> | Subject | 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,
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