RE: [Xen-devel] iscsi patch

[James Harper <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i hadn't thought of doing that. I make it hard for myself sometimes!!!

 

there's an iscsi-boot program which I can't get working - are there some network ioctl's not implemented under xen? It seems to be a minimal iscsid which doesn't persist but connects the root filesystem. Maybe it isn't maintained anymore but it's in utils.

 

James

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From: Ian Pratt
Sent: Tue 24/08/2004 5:49 PM
To: James Harper
Cc: Ian Pratt; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] iscsi patch

> actually, to make it for xenU from xen0 (no compiler tools in xenU on my setup), i have to also replace all occurances 'uname -r' with something that gives me '2.6.7-xenU' (eg echo 2.6.7-xenU) in both the makefile and install.sh files. it's a bit of a pain.

Hmm, I'm not sure why you had to do that. I build on a totally
different system to the one I'm installing on (it runs a 2.4
kernel) and other than editing TOPDIR and KDIR everything worked
fine if I did a "make ARCH=xen", and then did a "make ARCH=xen install"
on the target system (it shouldn't rebuild anything, so you won't
need a compiler).

> the initrd comment is true though, unless iscsi (built in to the kernel) could be convinced to connect via a kernel parameter... that seems a bit extreme though when an initrd would solve the problem nicely.

Adding a kernel command line parameter to do this would be tough
-- iscsid is a big daemon and setting up a connection to an iscsi
disk is really quite complex.

Ian