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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] domUloader

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] domUloader
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:06:13 +0000
Cc: "Edwards, Nigel \(Nigel Edwards\)" <nigel.edwards@xxxxxx>, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Philip R. Auld" <pauld@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Kurt Garloff <garloff@xxxxxxx>
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> There are good arguments for isolating storage management in Dom0.
> However, I have been looking at migration of domains with iSCSI
> and have found it a pain to fix up so that the iSCSI disk
> appears on the same /dev/sdx point in both source and destination
> Dom0s.

If you wrote a setup script for iSCSI devices (as we have for NBD, etc) you 
could do some sort of lookup to identify the correct device node when the 
domain arrives at a new host - then you wouldn't need for the device node to 
be the same everywhere.

Don't know terribly much about iSCSI, but you'd just need a device-node 
independent way of specifying the LUN as the block device in the config file.

Cheers,
Mark

> That is why I have started looking at direct iSCSI attachment in DomU
> via initrd. Then storage is fixed up automatically via migration of
> network connections. The disadvantage of this, as Kurt points out,
> is that it exposes your iSCSI infrastructure into DomU.
>
> Cheers,
> Nigel.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Kurt Garloff
> > Sent: 23 January 2006 14:20
> > To: Philip R. Auld
> > Cc: Xen development list; Jeremy Katz
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] domUloader
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:08:26PM -0500, Philip R. Auld wrote:
> > > Of course, that would mean support for root on iSCSI in the
> >
> > installer
> >
> > > and mkinitrd code.
> >
> > I would really handle iSCSI in dom0 and export sdX/hdX to domU.
> > Solves the nasty OOM problem as well and makes your domains know
> > less about the underlaying storage. Which is good in my vision
> > of virtualization.
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Kurt Garloff, Head Architect, Director SUSE Labs (act.), Novell Inc.
>
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