Sorry for the delay.
Are you trying to soft-iscsi boot VMs with no 'hard drives' (as far as KVM
is concerned) or trying to have the iscsi targets appear as 'normal' drives?
Based on the description, I'm assuming the former with an intent to soft
boot. If that is the case, then is the virtual machine's iscsi fields in
xCAT setup?
e.g. nodels <vm> iscsi output
iscsi.target, iscsi.server at a minimum should be defined. Nodeset should
then manipulate dhcp to set root-path just right so that xNBA will set up
iBFT and either PXE or boot to said disk, depending on if you are trying to
'install' or 'boot. I have used this mechanism repeatedly to test iSCSI
installs before taking it to bare metal.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Henrik Jacobsson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have the following setup:
>
> * equalogic iscsi machine
>
> * kvm
> The kvm servers has four network connections
> 1 - the private admin network (10.80....)
> 2 - the open server network
> 3+4 - private iscsi network (10.0....)
>
> * The virtual machines connects virtual interfaces to each of the four
> interfaces on the kvm server.
>
> * xcat2
>
> I do manage to start the virtual machine on iscsi using pxe and a modified
> initrd and pxeconfig.
> This, however is a problem for several reasons - one being that nodeset
> destroys my pxeconfig, another that an upgrade of the virtual machines
> requires me to also upgrade the initrd on the pxe server
>
> Is there a way to use xcat to boot the vm directly from the iscsi disk?
>
> regards
> //Henrik
>
>
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