Subject: Add virtio lun and virtio-scsi lun disk bus option From: Chen Hanxiao chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com Tue Dec 11 17:06:38 2012 +0800 Date: Fri Dec 14 19:21:35 2012 -0500: Git: 8b22d7a763acab05558f36818b8f890c4b428c1d As a result of CVE-2011-4127, libvirt disabled generic SCSI commands passed through to the underlying disk by qemu from a guest to a virtio disk when device type is "disk" afer commit 177db087757e4adb02c211de56336a5991c8eb20. And libvirt introduce a new device type "lun" to allow SG_IO commands passing through. This patch allows VM admin to configure this via virt-manager. Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao Index: virt-manager-0.9.4/src/virtManager/addhardware.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-0.9.4.orig/src/virtManager/addhardware.py +++ virt-manager-0.9.4/src/virtManager/addhardware.py @@ -540,8 +540,12 @@ class vmmAddHardware(vmmGObjectUI): if self.vm.get_hv_type() == "kvm": add_dev("sata", virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_DISK, "SATA disk") add_dev("virtio", virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_DISK, "Virtio disk") + add_dev("virtio", virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_LUN, + _("Virtio lun")) add_dev("virtio-scsi", virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_DISK, _("Virtio SCSI disk")) + add_dev("virtio-scsi", virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_LUN, + _("Virtio SCSI lun")) if self.conn.is_xen(): add_dev("xen", virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_DISK, "Virtual disk")