Hello all!
I was hoping someone can set me straight here and help me utilize the
iSCSI initiator feature of Vbox 1.6.4.
I have a few LUNs on a Netapp filer exported via iSCSI and a "testing"
Igroup. I have confirmed that the LUN, and Igroup are properly configured.
I was able to login and access one of my test LUNs from a real server
using open-iscsi so I am confident that the Netapp is configured properly.
I added the IQN of the VBox iscsi implementation as:
iqn.2008-04.com.sun.virtualbox.initiator.
Now, from my host machine (Gentoo 2.6.25 r7 SMP) I execute the following
command which I believe should login to the filers iSCSI export and
subsequently access the LUN referenced:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ *VBoxManage addiscsidisk -server 10.144.40.52 -target
iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.50420453 -lun 1*
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.4
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
iSCSI disk created. UUID: 606f234e-c599-4bfa-89bd-1c2c60296fcf
I see the VBox instance "logging" into the iSCSI export on the filer
itself:
Tue Aug 19 12:17:45 PDT [iscsi.notice:notice]: ISCSI: New session from
initiator iqn.2008-04.com.sun.virtualbox.initiator at IP addr 10.100.100.144
However, when I start 'VirtualBox' and go to the Virtual Disk Manager I
see the LUN entry created, however both Virtual and Actual size are "0 B".
Location:
iscsi:10.144.40.52/iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.50420453:281474976710656
Disk Type: Writethrough
Storage Type: iSCSI
Attached to: --
Snapshot: --
If bind that LUN entry to a VM and start the VM I get the following error:
Unknown error creating VM.
VBox status code: -40 (VERR_TIMEOUT).
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}
At this point I am stuck. I've tried both with and without the -lun
argument, but I cannot get Vbox to recognize an actual disk despite the
log messages telling me that it has done so already. :-)
Any ideas on what I might try?
Also, what can be done with the -encodelun option? I didn't see a
description in the user manual.
Thanks for reading and hopefully helping me through this issue!
Dave
_______________________________________________
vbox-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
