[Qemu-discuss] Question regarding configuring PVSCSI with QEMU / KVM

[Singhal, Upanshu]

Hello,

I am working on an experiment where I want to create a KVM based Virtual machine with VMWARE "vmxnet3" and "pvscsi" devices.

I am currently using Fedora 20 with "3.17.4-200.fc20.x86_64" with QEMU 1.6 version. I can see that vmxnet3 and pvscsi drivers are available on the host system and can also see there reference in "qemu-kvm" help.

I am able to create a vmxnet3 device but not able to create a "pvscsi" type device. I tried several methods e.g. modifying the vm xml file using virsh, but whenever I give controller model as "vmpvscsi" or "pvscsi", kvm refuses to accept this as a valid model.

As per qemu / kvm documentation, these drivers are supported but I am not able to find as how to configure pvscsi.

Can someone will be able to help me on this as how to configure or point to me some relevant documentation?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Thanks,

Upanshu Singhal

EMC Data Storage Systems, Bangalore, India.

Phone: 91-80-67375604