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On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:37:55PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: >> This provides built-in support for iSCSI to QEMU. >> This has the advantage that the iSCSI devices need not be made visible to >> the host, which is useful if you have very many virtual machines and very >> many iscsi devices. >> It also has the benefit that non-root users of QEMU can access iSCSI devices >> across the network without requiring root privilege on the host. >> >> This driver interfaces with the multiplatform posix library for iscsi >> initiator/client access to iscsi devices hosted at >> git://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi.git >> >> The patch adds the driver to interface with the iscsi library. >> It also updated the configure script to >> * by default, probe is libiscsi is available and if so, build >> qemu against libiscsi. >> * --enable-libiscsi >> Force a build against libiscsi. If libiscsi is not available >> the build will fail. >> * --disable-libiscsi >> Do not link against libiscsi, even if it is available. >> >> When linked with libiscsi, qemu gains support to access iscsi resources such >> as disks and cdrom directly, without having to make the devices visible to >> the host. >> >> You can specify devices using a iscsi url of the form : >> iscsi://[<username>[:<password>@]]<host>[:<port]/<target-iqn-name>/<lun> >> When using authentication, the password can optionally be set with >> LIBISCSI_CHAP_PASSWORD="password" to avoid it showing up in the process list >> >> Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlb...@gmail.com> >> --- >> Makefile.objs | 1 + >> block/iscsi.c | 596 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> configure | 31 +++ >> trace-events | 7 + >> 4 files changed, 635 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 block/iscsi.c > > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >
