[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 3:33 PM schrieb 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.

For completeness, Thomas already applied v1 now, so this is obsolete :)