Il 31/08/2014 22:03, Andy Grover ha scritto: >> So I think what you want is a `qemu-iscsi'? ie. the same as qemu-nbd, >> but with an iSCSI frontend (to replace the NBD server). > > You want qemu to be able to issue SCSI commands over iSCSI? I thought > qemu used libiscsi for this, to be the initiator. What Benoit and I have > been discussing is the other side, enabling qemu to configure LIO to > handle requests from other initiators
Right, you're talking about the same thing; qemu-nbd is an NBD server (matching a "target" in SCSI speak) that understands qcow2. Paolo > (either VMs or iron) over iSCSI or > FCoE, but backed by qcow2 disk images. The problem being LIO doesn't > speak qcow2 yet.