Guest kernel: kernel-5.14.0-401.el9.x86_64
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 5:20 PM Fangge Jin <f...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> I'm testing USB disk recently, I changed the block size of USB disk in vm
> xml and started vm.
> vm started successfully, but when I checked it in guest, I found the
> setting didn't take effect.
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> Versions:
> libvirt-9.9.0-1.el9.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-8.1.0-5.el9.x86_64
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> Steps:
> 1. Start a vm with usb disk and block size configurations in xml:
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> *# virsh dumpxml vm2 --xpath //disk<disk type="file" device="disk">
> <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/> <source
> file="/var/lib/libvirt/images/RHEL-9.4.0-20231221.12-x86_64-ovmf.qcow2"
> index="2"/> <backingStore/> <target dev="vda" bus="virtio"/> <boot
> order="1"/> <alias name="virtio-disk0"/> <address type="pci"
> domain="0x0000" bus="0x08" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/></disk><disk
> type="file" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/> <source
> file="/var/lib/libvirt/images/test1.qcow2" index="1"/> <backingStore/>
> <blockio logical_block_size="1024" physical_block_size="1024"
> discard_granularity="1024"/> <target dev="hda" bus="usb"/> <alias
> name="usb-disk0"/> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="1"/></disk>*
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> 2. Check the qemu command line
> *-blockdev
> {"driver":"file","filename":"/var/lib/libvirt/images/test1.qcow2","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}
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> *-blockdev
> {"node-name":"libvirt-1-format","read-only":false,"driver":"qcow2","file":"libvirt-1-storage","backing":null}
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> *-device
> {"driver":"usb-storage","bus":"usb.0","port":"1","drive":"libvirt-1-format","id":"usb-disk0","logical_block_size":1024,"physical_block_size":1024,"discard_granularity":1024,"removable":false}*
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> 3. Log in vm, and check block size:
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> *[root@localhost ~]# blockdev --getss /dev/sda (logical block size,
> expected value is 1024)512[root@localhost ~]# blockdev --getpbsz /dev/sda
> (physical block size, expected value is 1024)512*
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> BR,
> Fangge Jin
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