Bug 923843

Summary: include userspace iSCSI initiator in block driver whitelist
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, areis, chhu, hhuang, juzhang, knoel, mrezanin, pbonzini, qzhang, shyu, sluo, virt-maint
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-9.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:05:40 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 957295, 1000159, 1006468, 1058598    

Description Paolo Bonzini 2013-03-20 15:03:00 UTC 
Multiple guests running on the same host will currently have the same initiator name when running on KVM using iSCSI storage.  This makes it impossible to use SCSI reservations without expensive Fibre Channel equipment that supports NPIV.

Putting the initiator in userspace will let users use persistent reservations with iSCSI storage.  The code is already in Fedora 19, and is used in production by members of the upstream community.  Libvirt support is on its way (patches posted, almost ready).
Comment 1 Paolo Bonzini 2013-03-20 15:05:11 UTC 
Fedora commits:

commit 30823602b77837b5506be273c02b985d7281daa1
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Date:   Mon Mar 11 18:12:05 2013 +0100

    Use pkg-config to search for libiscsi

commit 625ba4a454f3e0ea48753432b20a09ee4e7a51ae
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Date:   Mon Mar 11 17:25:17 2013 +0100

    Added libiscsi-devel BuildRequires
Comment 4 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-10-10 11:33:34 UTC 
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-9.el7
Comment 6 Paolo Bonzini 2013-10-29 09:54:33 UTC 
Should be VERIFIED according to bug 1000159 comment 13.
Comment 7 chhu 2013-10-30 05:38:05 UTC 
Hi, Sibiao

Could you please help to provide more details for the verification of this bug? Many thanks!
Comment 10 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:05:40 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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