[pve-devel] [PATCH v2 qemu-server 1/2] drive device: fix regression with missing '/dev/disk/by-id' paths

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 23.07.25 um 3:21 PM schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> With the switch to '-blockdev', it is necessary to explicitly specify
> the device ID for SCSI drives, see also [0]. Otherwise, the device
> paths in '/dev/disk/by-id' would be missing. For IDE/SATA, the paths
> are still present with '-blockdev' without additional changes and
> VirtIO block did not have such paths even before. The relevant
> 'ide-{cd,hd}' and 'virtio-blk-pci' devices do not seem to have an
> option that would be equivalent to the 'scsi-{cd,hd}' 'device_id'
> option.
> 
> While the change should be backwards-compatible even with '-drive',
> guard it with machine version 10.0 just to be sure.
> 
> [0]: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/a1dce96236f6d35167924fa7e6a70f58f394b23c
> 
> Fixes: aaf48d8e ("command line: switch to blockdev starting with machine version 10.0")
> Co-developed-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
> ---
> 
> v2: resend with --transfer-encoding=base64

Seems like the list auto-converts to

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

and breaks it again...

I created a blockdev-fixups branch in my qemu-server staff repo for this.