Re: [Xen-users] QDISK RBD/Ceph backend parameters

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 18:05 +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I want to use qdisk to access images stored on a ceph cluster (using
> xl on xen 4.4).
> 
> Something like this works :
> disk = ['rbd:mypool/myimage,raw,xvdb,w,backendtype=qdisk' ]
> 
> However I need to setup some optiosn for it to give to qemu (to pass
> down to librbd), like for example which user to login as on the
> cluster (for the example above, I had disabled auth).
> 
> So I need to give something like this to qemu "rbd:mypool/myimage:id=myuser"
> 
> Hoever if I try to use :
> disk = ['rbd:mypool/myimage:id=myuser,raw,xvdb,w,backendtype=qdisk' ]
> 
> I get a syntax error from libxl when parsing the disk spec ...
> 
> So how can I escape it properly ?

See docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt. You need to make use of the
fact that an explicit target= eats the rest of the line without
interpreting it.
1
Ian.



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