On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomon...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:17:50 +1100 > ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This patch adds support for attaching directorly to iSCSI resources, >> both DISK/SBC and CDROM/MMC, without the need to make the devices >> visible to the host. > > This adds the iscsi initiator feature to qemu (as you did to dbench), > right?
Yes. > > >> The syntax to specify a iscsi resource is >> iscsi://<host>[:port]/<target-iqn-name>/<lun> >> >> Example : >> -drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1:3260/iqn.ronnie.test/1 >> >> -cdrom iscsi://127.0.0.1:3260/iqn.ronnie.test/2 > > Specifying lun looks odd (from the perspective of SCSI initiator)? > Ok. I can easily to change this. How would you prefer the iscsi:// url look like ? > btw, how do we specify initiator's configuration (iscsi params, chap, > initiator iqn, etc)? > You cant yet. :-( Right now they are hardcoded to reasonable defaults I think will work for most targets. I want to add more of these features and make them settable from the command line, but that will take a lot of time. Hopefully having a basic/non-flexible implementation as a first step may even encourage others to contribute to improve it until it is full featured. regards ronnie sahlberg