Bug 1021483 – Need to disable the serial property for scsi-block drive

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Bug 1021483 - Need to disable the serial property for scsi-block drive

Summary:	Need to disable the serial property for scsi-block drive

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	qemu-kvm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Virtualization Maintenance
QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On:	1021480
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Reported:	2013-10-21 07:40 EDT by Sibiao Luo
Modified:	2013-12-09 03:42 EST (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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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.
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Clone Of:	1021480
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Last Closed:	2013-10-24 19:18:36 EDT
Type:	Bug
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Comment 1 Sibiao Luo 2013-10-21 07:41:57 EDT

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 19:18:08 EDT

The serial property is deprecated in RHEL7.

Comment 3 Paolo Bonzini 2013-10-24 19:18:36 EDT

The serial property for -drive is deprecated in RHEL7.

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