Re: [Xen-users] Xen and iSCSI - options and questions

[Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 jpranevich@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The good news is that, using your suggestion (which doesn't match the
> documentation, but whatever), I'm able to apparently get my
> iSCSI-as-root VBD working on a SuSE test machine. (It doesn't boot, but
> that's because I need to reconfigure for the SuSE bootloader rather than
> Redhat's pygrub. I at least get kernel messages and a "can't mount root"
> message.)

So now you are complaining to me, the developer, that you didn't read the
mailinglist?

> I did have to make a change in the script which worries me: (in find_sdev())
>
>       #dev=`readlink $session/device/target*/*:0:*/block*`
>       dev=`basename $session/device/target*/*:0:*/block*/*`

That line is *pretty* kernel specific... libvirt had many problems with it
too. Are you running .18 or .21?

> Unfortunately, I do not have the  same luck on my stock Xen 3.2.1
> install. I've added some simple debu gging and realized that block-iscsi
> doesn't seem to be called at all and  there are no lines written to
> /var/log/xen-hotplug.log when I try an d start my domain, though I do
> get lines there on my SuSE instance.

No extra config is required.

Stefan


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