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@DenisValitov DenisValitov commented Aug 18, 2020

Added support for shared drives when the --shared is enabled. The xml description of the VM changes here. This is necessary so that scisi disks can be described as shared.
The qcow2 format is also replaced with raw. This is necessary because you cannot use a qcow2 image for a shared write disks, as this will corrupt the qcow2 metadata.

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-a '//devices/disk[last()]/address' -t attr -n unit -v $sidx \
"$xml"
fi
if [ "$bus" != "scsi" ]; then
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There is a formatting error.
You need to move the code block to the right.

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Done

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@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ parse_options(){
exit 1
fi

DISK_OWNER=$OWNER
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Why do we need this variable?

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This variable is needed to separate NODE and OWNER since below NODE is added to OWNER. This is used on line 701: VOLUMES+=("disk-${disk[0]}-$DISK_OWNER:$disk_path:raw:${disk[1]}:${disk[0]}"). This is necessary so that scsi disks (shared) have the same image for two VMs.

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-a '//devices/disk[last()]/address' -t attr -n unit -v $sidx \
"$xml"
fi
if [ "$bus" != "scsi" ]; then
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I think it's best to check the equality.

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Done

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disk_path="$USR_CACHE_DIR/$VMNAME/disk-${disk[0]}.qcow2"
log qemu-img create -f qcow2 "$disk_path" ${disk[2]}
VOLUMES+=("disk-${disk[0]}-$OWNER:$disk_path:qcow2:${disk[1]}:${disk[0]}")
disk_path="$USR_CACHE_DIR/$VMNAME/disk-${disk[0]}.raw"
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Why you remove qcow2?

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You can never use a qcow2 image for a shared-write disk as it will cause corruption of the qcow2 metadata. Use raw format for shared disks.

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-a '//devices/disk[last()]/target' -t attr -n bus -v $bus \
-a '//devices/disk[last()]/target' -t attr -n dev -v $dev \
"$xml"
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Please add a comment to the pull request:
What's changed here?
Why is this changed?

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The xml description of the VM changes here. This is necessary so that scisi disks can be described as shared.

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sl84702 commented Aug 18, 2020

Please add an example to README.md

@DenisValitov DenisValitov force-pushed the shared_disk branch 3 times, most recently from 341ce36 to 3a448b2 Compare August 19, 2020 07:15
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@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ options:
-f, --force stop running VM
-c, --clean remove kernel and initramfs volumes after VM
shutdown
--shared using scsi disks as shared disk (The qcow2
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It wasn't clear from the PR why qcow2 can't be used for shared disk, but the ticket somewhat explains that:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511480

It's still weird that qemu has issues with shared disks for qcow2.

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@@ -225,6 +227,9 @@ parse_options(){
elif [ "$1" == "-K" -o "$1" == "--keep" ]; then
[ -t 1 ] && KOPT+=("ktest.keep")
shift
elif [ "$1" == "--shared" ]; then
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If wonder if we should make it an attribute of a DISKSPEC rather than global setting for all disks.

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-a '//devices/disk[last()]/target' -t attr -n bus -v $bus \
-a '//devices/disk[last()]/target' -t attr -n dev -v $dev \
-s '//devices/disk[last()]' -t elem -n shareable -v '' \
-s '//devices/disk[last()]' -t elem -n vendor -v 'YADRO' \
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vendor/product belongs to diskspec too

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-a '//devices/disk[last()]/address' -t attr -n type -v 'drive' \
-a '//devices/disk[last()]/address' -t attr -n unit -v $sidx \
"$xml"
xml ed --inplace \
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why did you change the hunk?

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"$xml"

if [ -n "$SHARED" ] && [ "$bus" == "scsi" ]; then
xml ed --inplace \
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Please drop the hunk altogether and append required parameters for sharable disk below

if [ "$bus" == "scsi" ]; then
    <...set up scsi controller...>
    if [ -n "$SHARED" ]; then
       <...set up settings for sharable disk...>
    fi
    if <...vendor is provided in diskspec..>; then
         <setup vendor>
    fi
    if <...product is provided in diskspec...>; then
        <...setup product...>
    fi
fi

That would reduce amount of unneeded code churn and make the change much easier to review.

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@@ -703,6 +741,7 @@ if [ -n "$GDB_ADDRESS" ]; then
xml::gdb::set "$XML_NAME" "$GDB_ADDRESS"
fi

while [ -n "$NODE" ] && [ "$NODE" -ne "0" ] && ! [[ -f $USR_CACHE_DIR/ktest-0-$DISK_OWNER/start.log ]]; do sleep 1; done
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It would hang indefinitely if the disk doesn't come up. Also the dependency on the start log is questionable.

What is ktest-0?

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