For what it's worth, I'm also in need of this feature. Some way to make a scsi tape available to a VM.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Daniel Helgenberger <daniel.helgenber...@m-box.de> wrote: > > On Fr, 2014-04-25 at 17:19 +0200, Jiri Belka wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:40:09 +0000 >> Daniel Helgenberger <daniel.helgenber...@m-box.de> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish this? In my particular >> > setup, I need a FC tape drive passed though to the vm. >> > Note, passing throuh FC - LUNs works flawlessly. >> > >> > If I understood Virtio -SCSI correctly, this should be possible from >> > libvirt's part. >> >> I can be wrong but my understanding is that dm-mpio works on block >> layer thus it does not support multipath for tapes/cd-devices. >> >> But I could be wrong, I got this info from an OpenBSD paper comparing >> SCSI multipath implementation. >> >> j. > No, I think so too - it does not support tape drive as such (but I could > set up a tape library as a LUN to use it with LTFS for instance) > > The point being is another. VirtIO SCSI should be able to pass through > any scsi device; like tape drives end enclosures. I know this works in > Proxmox: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives > > Does it work in oVirt, too? In the GUI I only see block LUNs from DM. > > -- > > Daniel Helgenberger > m box bewegtbild GmbH > > P: +49/30/2408781-22 > F: +49/30/2408781-10 > > ACKERSTR. 19 > D-10115 BERLIN > > > www.m-box.de www.monkeymen.tv > > Geschäftsführer: Martin Retschitzegger / Michaela Göllner > Handeslregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg / HRB 112767 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users