[pve-devel] ZFS Storage Patches

[Chris Allen]

> It might be worth trying to make a feature request to the qemu-img team
to add this option?

I'll pursue getting this feature added to qemu-img.

> Your patch still needs to handle the case where a VM has been converted
> to a template since image handling after conversion complains of an
> unknown setting: sparse.

Got it, thanks.  I'll look into fixing that.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Michael Rasmussen <mir at datanom.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:08:41 -0700
> Chris Allen <ca.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Connecting to the target with a host group defined fails unless the
> > initiator has been added to the host group, as it should be by design.
>  If
> > I manually add the initiator name ("iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:<vm-name>")
> > to the host group on the server then I can connect to and use the volume.
> >  Since, like you pointed out Micheal, the initiator name is based on the
> > VM's name, maintaining the host-group association, manually or
> > automatically is a pain.  Too bad we can't force an initiator name.
> >
> It works with both hostgroup and targetgroup starting the VM provided
> that you add -iscsi 'initiator-name=<initiator-name>' since this option
> will be transferred to libiscsi. The problem is qemu-img which is used
> extensively in storage scripts in proxmox. It might be worth trying to
> make a feature request to the qemu-img team to add this option?
>
> > Did you try using only a target group, with no host group definition?
>  This
> > seems to work fine for me.  It might be worth it to keep just the target
> > group part of the patch and scrap the host group.
> >
> No, I haven't tried this but I think we should keep both hoping for
> qemu-img team to add the feature. Until then we simply ignore the
> option.
>
> Your patch still needs to handle the case where a VM has been converted
> to a template since image handling after conversion complains of an
> unknown setting: sparse.
>
>
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