Re: [pve-devel] [RFC qemu-server] avoid setting lun number for drives when pvscsi controller is used

[Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>]

Any feedback for this?

Am 13.04.21 um 10:24 schrieb Fabian Ebner:
> Reported in the community forum[0].
> 
> In QEMU's hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in the SCSIBusInfo struct, the max_lun property
> is set to 0. This means that in our stack, one cannot have multiple disks and
> use 'scsihw: pvscsi' currently, as kvm would fail with
>      bad scsi device lun: 1
> 
> Instead of increasing the lun number, increase the scsi-id, as we already do for
> lsi.* (in hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c the max_lun property is also 0).
> 
> [0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/kvm-bad-scsi-device-lun-1.84318/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> ---
> 
> I'm not experienced in this area, so not at all sure if this is the proper
> solution/workaround.
> 
>   PVE/QemuServer.pm | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> index fdb2ac9..4ce663b 100644
> --- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> +++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ sub print_drivedevice_full {
>   	    }
>   	}
>   
> -	if (!$conf->{scsihw} || ($conf->{scsihw} =~ m/^lsi/)){
> +	if (!$conf->{scsihw} || $conf->{scsihw} =~ m/^lsi/ || $conf->{scsihw} eq 'pvscsi') {
>   	    $device = "scsi-$devicetype,bus=$controller_prefix$controller.0,scsi-id=$unit";
>   	} else {
>   	    $device = "scsi-$devicetype,bus=$controller_prefix$controller.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0"
>