Am 10.09.2011 06:23, schrieb Ronnie Sahlberg: > List, > > Please find a patch that adds built-in iSCSI support to QEMU when built and > linked against the multiplatform iscsi initiator library at > git://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi.git > > All previous comments and suggestions have been addressed in this patch. > > I and others have done extensive testing and used this patch extensively over > the last ~6 months with great result. > > > In some situations, using a built-in iscsi inititator has benefits against > mounting the LUNs on the host. > > * Privacy: The iSCSI LUNs are private to the guest and are not visible either > to the host, nor to any processes running on the host. > * Ease of managment : If you have very many guests and very many, thousands > of, iSCSI LUNs. It is inconvenient to have to expose all LUNs to the > underlying host. > * No root requirement. Since the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted as devices on the > host, ordinary users can set up and use iSCSI resources without the need for > root privilege on the host to map the devices to local scsi devices. > > > Please merge this patch to master or explain how I should change the patch so > that it becomes acceptable for inclusion into QEMU.
Orit, I think you could be interested in reviewing this patch? Kevin
