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Bug 2130880 - [RFE]Can detect NVDIMM device from VMware guest by virsh
Summary: [RFE]Can detect NVDIMM device from VMware guest by virsh
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 9.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Virtualization Maintenance
QA Contact: mxie@redhat.com
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Blocks: 2130886
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-09-29 09:51 UTC by mxie@redhat.com
Modified: 2023-07-07 19:12 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-07-07 19:12:09 UTC
Type: Feature Request
Target Upstream Version:
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vmware-guest-with-nvdimm (63.38 KB, image/png)
2022-09-29 09:51 UTC, mxie@redhat.com 		no flags Details
esx7.0-rhel8.4-x86_64.vmx (3.28 KB, text/plain)
2022-09-29 10:04 UTC, Richard W.M. Jones 		no flags Details
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Red Hat Issue Tracker   RHEL-733 0 None None None 2023-07-07 19:12:08 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-135287 0 None None None 2022-09-29 09:59:38 UTC

Description mxie@redhat.com 2022-09-29 09:51:56 UTC 
Created attachment 1914969 [details]
vmware-guest-with-nvdimm

Description of problem:
[RFE]Can detect NVDIMM device from VMware guest by virsh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-8.7.0-1.el9.x86_64
qemu-img-7.1.0-1.el9.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Prepare a guest which has NVDIMM device on VMware, please refer to screenshot 'vmware-guest-with-nvdimm'

2.Use virsh to dump the guest xml from VMware, found there is no nvdimm device listed in libvirt xml

# virsh -c vpx://root.227.27/data/10.73.225.34/?no_verify=1 dumpxml esx7.0-rhel8.4-x86_64-nvdimm
Enter root's password for 10.73.227.27: 
<domain type='vmware' xmlns:vmware='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/vmware/1.0'>
  <name>esx7.0-rhel8.4-x86_64-nvdimm</name>
  <uuid>4203f627-1106-4a47-9a3c-6a14139bcb0d</uuid>
  <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <shares>1000</shares>
  </cputune>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type>
  </os>
  <clock offset='utc'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='[datastore2] esx7.0-rhel8.4-x86_64/esx7.0-rhel8.4-x86_64.vmdk'/>
      <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='vmpvscsi'/>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='00:50:56:b4:4e:19' type='generated'/>
      <source bridge='VM Network'/>
      <model type='vmxnet3'/>
    </interface>
    <video>
      <model type='vmvga' vram='8192' primary='yes'/>
    </video>
  </devices>
  <vmware:datacenterpath>data</vmware:datacenterpath>
  <vmware:moref>vm-122</vmware:moref>
</domain>



Actual results:
Can't detect NVDIMM device from VMware guest by virsh

Expected results:
As above description

Additional info:
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2022-09-29 10:04:52 UTC 
Created attachment 1914982 [details]
esx7.0-rhel8.4-x86_64.vmx

VMX file.  Note nvdimm0* entries.
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