On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:35:10AM +0930, Mike Hall wrote: > Is is currently possible to set up iSCSI storage volumes for a KVM host using > VirtManager? > > We're testing a CentOS 5.5 KVM host which will be converted to RHEL once > we're satisfied it works. > We can setup an iSCSI target in VirtManager OK, but when attempting to create > volumes on that target we get this message: > > Error launching volume wizard: iSCSI volume creation is not implemented > > Are we doing something wrong, or is this functionality not implemented?
The iSCSI protocol/standard provides no mechanism for remote creation of new LUNs. It all has to be done on the NAS administration console, whatever they may be, or via vendor-specific APIs. One day we would like to integrate some of these vendor specific APIs into libvirt's iSCSI driver to improve this situation, but that's some way off... > Alternatively, is there a manual way to do this? I described one way todo this here: http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-1-of-2/ YMMV depending on your iSCSI server Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list