Bug 1021483

Summary:	Need to disable the serial property for scsi-block drive
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Sibiao Luo <sluo>
Component:	qemu-kvm	Assignee:	Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	acathrow, bsarathy, chayang, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, pbonzini, qzhang, virt-maint, xfu
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	The serial property for QEMU's "-drive" option is deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta. The serial number for virtual disks can still be specified using libvirt or QEMU's "-device" option.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1021480	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-10-24 23:18:36 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1021480
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Comment 1 Sibiao Luo 2013-10-21 11:41:57 UTC

host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q qemu-kvm
3.10.0-34.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-9.el7.x86_64

# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -drive file=/dev/sdb,if=none,id=drive-data-disk,format=raw,aio=native,*serial=sluo_disk* -device virtio-scsi-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -monitor stdio
QEMU 1.5.3 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) VNC server running on `::1:5900'

(qemu)

Comment 2 Paolo Bonzini 2013-10-24 23:18:08 UTC

The serial property is deprecated in RHEL7.

Comment 3 Paolo Bonzini 2013-10-24 23:18:36 UTC

The serial property for -drive is deprecated in RHEL7.