Required RHEL versions for SGIO support in virtual machines

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Issue

  • Is using SCSI Passthrough of LUNs supported?
  • What versions are required for support and correct failover behavior of multipath LUNs-backed virtual machine disks when using a syscall to send SCSI commands to devices (SGIO)?
  • What RHEL KVM host versions support SGIO?
  • What are the required RHEL KVM host versions to use virtual disk devices devices of the lun or hostdev type?
  • Virtual Machines pause with an IO error when multipath failovers occur.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9, 10

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