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Bug 1032393 - qemu-kvm needs to handle snapshot=on with passthrough devices (iSCSI LUN or block device)
Summary: qemu-kvm needs to handle snapshot=on with passthrough devices (iSCSI LUN or b...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jeff Cody
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 1032369
Blocks: 1034993 1073368 1090374 1090379 1131974 1359965
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-20 05:28 UTC by Sibiao Luo
Modified: 2017-12-06 12:20 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Clone Of: 1032369
: 1090374 1090379 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2017-12-06 12:20:57 UTC
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Comment 1 Sibiao Luo 2013-11-20 05:30:17 UTC 
rhel6.5 also hit the same issue.
host info:
2.6.32-425.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.x86_64

# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.5.0 -cpu SandyBridge -enable-kvm -m 4G -smp 4 -name rhel6.5 -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=slew -uuid 6afa5f93-2d4f-420f-81c6-e5fdddbd1c83 -vnc :1 -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/sda1,if=none,id=drive-data-disk,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,werror=stop,rerror=stop,snapshot=on -device virtio-scsi-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0
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 'scsi-block' could not be initialized

Best Regards,
sluo
Comment 2 Sibiao Luo 2013-11-20 05:41:19 UTC 
Also tried the rhel6.4GA that still hit this issue, so not a regression issue.

host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q qemu-kvm-rhev
2.6.32-425.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64

Best regards,
sluo
Comment 3 Paolo Bonzini 2013-11-20 12:34:44 UTC 
"-snapshot/snapshot=on" are not supposed to work with iSCSI LUNs or scsi-block.

The bug is actually that we can create a live snapshot of a passthrough device.
Comment 4 Eric Blake 2014-04-02 02:49:24 UTC 
Libvirt doesn't use -snapshot (or snapshot=on), so refusing to support it in qemu should have no impact on libvirt.
Comment 13 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 12:20:57 UTC 
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