On 06/17/2011 10:36 AM, Ken Stailey wrote: > Hi, > > If you look at the libvirt wiki page: > > http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks > > You see: > ``serial > If present, this specify serial number of virtual hard drive. For > example, it may look as <serial>WD-WMAP9A966149</serial>. Since 0.7.1 '' > > Where "serial" is not RS232 or anything tty-related it's a "serial number" on > a virtio disk. > > If you look at LP: #604355 here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 > > You see that you cannot successfully run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" > because there is a postinst script inside that package that depends on there > being entries under /dev/disk/by-id for the drives to select to offer to have > grub2 installed on. > > Because udev uses disk serial numbers to populate /dev/disk/by-id not setting > the serial number is fatal to the operation of the script inside that package. > > There are probably other reasons for wanting to set the serial number on a > virtio block device one but that's my biggest issue. > > I'll file a formal request via > http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/page/BugReporting#Feature_Requests > > but I wanted to give a quick notification about this. >
virt-manager/virt-install definitely need to provide an option to set the disk serial number manually. But maybe there should be some libvirt option to auto generate a random serial number for all disk devices? Probably something to put in qemu.conf or similar. - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
