Bug 1975677
| Summary: | libiscsi is going to be removed from RHEL 9 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Reporter: | Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin> |
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Jiri Denemark <jdenemar> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Meina Li <meili> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 9.0 | CC: | areis, chwen, coli, hhan, jdenemar, meili, pkrempa, smitterl, timao, virt-maint, xuzhang |
| Target Milestone: | beta | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | libvirt-7.5.0-1.el9 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2021-12-07 21:57:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | 7.5.0 |
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Description
Miroslav Rezanina
2021-06-24 07:59:58 UTC
I wrongly understand dependency chain. libvirt is using libiscsi directly without dependency on qemu-kvm. However, libiscsi itself will be removed and we need to get rid of all dependencies requiring this package so libvirt has to remove iscsi storage driver. Patch sent upstream for review: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-June/msg00721.html BTW, iscsi storage driver access storage via block devices in /dev provided by the iSCSI kernel driver. We need to disable iscsi-direct storage driver to remove libiscsi dependency. Pushed upstream as
commit b3bbe5d8f58ccb81ab40ad2b6c3df5d1c0b70139
Refs: v7.4.0-248-gb3bbe5d8f5
Author: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 24 10:18:17 2021 +0200
Commit: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar>
CommitDate: Thu Jun 24 11:08:54 2021 +0200
spec: Drop libiscsi support in RHEL-9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975677
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko>
Pre-verfiy it since libiscsi is disbaled in spec file. Meili, this update will only disable iscsi-direct storage pools. Assign it to you. Hi,Jiri : Can we have a clearer error message like "not support iscsi-direct" when defining an iscsi-direct pool? I think the current error message "internal error: missing backend for pool type 6 (iscsi-direct)" may confuse us sometimes. Thanks. Test Version: libvirt-7.5.0-1.el9.x86_64 qemu-kvm-6.0.0-9.el9.x86_64 Test Steps: 1. Check the current packages which are related with iscsi. # rpm -qa | grep iscsi libiscsi-1.19.0-4.el9.x86_64 iscsi-initiator-utils-iscsiuio-6.2.1.2-7.gita8fcb37.el9.x86_64 iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.1.2-7.gita8fcb37.el9.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-7.5.0-1.el9.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-debuginfo-7.5.0-1.el9.x86_64 ---Don't include qemu-kvm-block-iscsi and iscsi-direct related packages 2. Define an iscsi-direct pool # virsh pool-define iscsi-direct.pool error: Failed to define pool from iscsi-direct.pool error: internal error: missing backend for pool type 6 (iscsi-direct) (In reply to Meina Li from comment #10) > Hi,Jiri : > Can we have a clearer error message like "not support iscsi-direct" when > defining an iscsi-direct pool? No as this would require downstream only patches. From the upstream point of view ... > I think the current error message "internal error: missing backend for pool > type 6 (iscsi-direct)" may confuse us sometimes. Thanks. ... this error message is okay, since it indicates that the backend for 'iscsi-direct' is not compiled or installed and there's no upstream notion of iscsi-direct being "unsupported. I don't think the message is confusing. It clearly says the support for iscsi-direct is missing. It doesn't say why it is missing (not installed vs. disabled during build), but that would mean changing the error message depending on how various parts of libvirt are enabled or disabled in the spec or even shipped in case some subpackage is only shipped with a specific product. According to comment 10 and comment 12, move this bug to be verified. *** Bug 1986114 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |