I think you first need to figure out what libvirt can do for you since xcat
totally following it's functionalities.

Thanks
Best Regards
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From:   Douglas Myers <[email protected]>
To:     "xCAT Users Mailing list" <[email protected]>
Date:   2015/08/06 12:45
Subject:        [xcat-user] KVM storage question



SLES 11 MN and VM  xCAT-2.9.1  x86_64 KVM


I am in the process of converting from a LVM backed storage solution for
VMs to a raw file for disk housed in a GPFS cell.  The design has the
hypervisors seeing gpfs as local storage, and when I add a single raw image
file and start the VM with it, everythign works fine.  The problem is,
several of these VMs have two or three logical volumes presented as disks,
sd[abc].  When I attempt to convert the second lv to a file, the conversion
works fine, but I'm missing the proper syntax to add it to the vmstorage
object:

vmstorage=/gpfs/root/z10071_rootvg.img|r/gpfs/app/z10071_appvg.img

When attempting to power up, I receive this message:

z10000:~ # rpower z10071 on
z10071: Error: internal error Only 1 ide controller is supported

If I try to set the vmstoragemodel to scsi, xCAT will boot the VM but the
VM cannot find it's root disk.  If I revert to a single disk and remove
vmstoragemodel I can successfully power on and boot into OS.  So how to I
add more than one image file as a disk?

(Yes, I know, should be using virtio disks, these are legacy machines,
newer VMs will hopefully be using it)

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Douglas Myers,
IBM Special Events - Smart Cloud BMS Lead
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