Bug 1021788

Summary: the error message "scsi generic interface too old" is wrong more often than not
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Sibiao Luo <sluo>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Fam Zheng <famz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 7.0CC: bsarathy, chayang, famz, hhuang, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, mrezanin, pbonzini, qzhang, rbalakri, virt-maint, xfu
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-66.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 1021785 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-03-05 08:01:50 UTC Type: Bug
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Comment 1 Paolo Bonzini 2013-10-24 23:16:53 UTC
The command line is incorrect, so I am changing the subject.

Comment 3 Ademar Reis 2014-05-28 17:55:51 UTC
Fam has posted a patch upstream:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-04/msg02404.html

Comment 4 Miroslav Rezanina 2014-07-09 12:17:38 UTC
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-66.el7

Comment 5 FuXiangChun 2014-08-06 07:09:26 UTC
reproduced this bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-60.el7.x86_64 & 3.10.0-140.el7.x86_64

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -smp 2 -m 4G  -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.8.240:3260-iscsi-iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz-lun-2,format=raw,aio=native,snapshot=on,id=drive-data-disk,if=none -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -net none -vnc :10

QEMU 1.5.3 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: scsi-block: scsi generic interface too old
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device initialization failed.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device 'scsi-block' could not be initialized

verify bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-66.el7.x86_64 on AMD host.

result:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -smp 2 -m 4G  -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.8.240:3260-iscsi-iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz-lun-2,format=raw,aio=native,snapshot=on,id=drive-data-disk,if=none -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -net none -vnc :10

(qemu) qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: cannot get SG_IO version number: Operation not supported.  Is this a SCSI device?
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device initialization failed.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device 'scsi-block' could not be initialized

Verify bug with qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.0-3.el7ev.preview.x86_64 on Intel host.

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -smp 2 -m 4G  -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.8.240:3260-iscsi-iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz-lun-2,format=raw,aio=native,snapshot=on,id=drive-data-disk,if=none -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -net none -vnc :10

QEMU 2.0.92 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: cannot get SG_IO version number: Operation not supported.  Is this a SCSI device?
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device initialization failed.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device 'scsi-block' could not be initialized


Fam,

Can you have a look at this test result?  Is it expect?

Comment 6 Fam Zheng 2014-08-06 10:43:01 UTC
Yes.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 08:01:50 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html