[RHEL5.6] KVM: can't determine target name for virsh detach-disk when repeating attach and detach
Issue
- If a disk is online attached/detached to a RHEL5.x guest OS repeatedlyusing a same target name (e.g. vda), the target device name recognized by the guest OS is incremented (e.g. vda => vdb => vdc => ...).
- As a result, admins can't easily determine a target name to detach from the guest OS, since there is no target name mapping rule between host and guest.
- How reproducible: Always
- This problem occurs on RHEL5.5, too. So not a regression on RHEL5.6.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (also occurs on RHEL5.5)
- kernel-2.6.18-238.el5
- kmod-kvm-83-224.el5
- kvm-83-224.el5
- libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5
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