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---Problem Description--- Specifying serial number on a virtio-block backed disk (via <serial> tag in XML) does not work. ---uname output--- Linux alaska.linuxperf9025.net 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 1 01:33:01 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine Type = System Information Manufacturer: IBM Product Name: BladeCenter HS22V -[7871AC1]- Version: 02 ---Steps to Reproduce--- Create RHEL6.0 Guest (on RHEL6.0 host) with virtio-block virtual disk (or alternatively use the virsh attach-device command to add later) specifying a serial number for the disk via the <serial> tag. Once the guest is started one should be able to view the serial number for this virtual disk in /dev/disk/by-id. No serial number is being propogated through to /dev/disk/by-id. [root@localhost ~]# ls /dev/disk/by-id/ dm-name-VolGroup-lv_root dm-name-VolGroup-lv_swap dm-uuid-LVM-gKyZKm5h3jr0gwsvKGyNpnJM4a3NlqlEdNV7INjcLs9lVxOAml5ETPkWga2zuWHZ dm-uuid-LVM-gKyZKm5h3jr0gwsvKGyNpnJM4a3NlqlEtvDt4W1c7ZONUKN4W8U6MWT2qYVjglie Note: <serial> does work for IDE backed disks, Note: It doesn't require attach-device. Just hand-editing a shutdown guest XML and restarting would exhibit this problem as well. Attachments: - Guest XML (post creation/start) from virsh dumpxml - XML used to 'attach' new disk via virsh attach-device. Specifies <serial> number for disk. - DumpXML of guest after 'virsh attach-device rhel6vm1 att.xml'
Created attachment 477677 [details] rhel6vm1postatt.xml
Created attachment 477678 [details] att.xml
Created attachment 477679 [details] rhel6vm1.xml
I believe this is a dupe of 694553 that was patch-posted by Amit Shah for 6.2 on 5/31/2011. Added Amit Shah to cc:; asking him to confirm, and if so, close this bz.
Patch posted in another bug; marking as a dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 710349 ***