Why can't I pass through a tape drive to a guest in RHEV?

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Issue

  • I have a requirement to pass through LTO5 Tape drives published over SAN to hypervisor host to be made visible to VMs on RHEV.
  • I have presented the tape device to the RHEV-H but cannot pass through to RHEV guests

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2
  • SAN tape drives

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