Issue

• HP FusionIO 1.2 GB Accelerator storage PCIe card is installed on HP Proliant DL585 G7 server. The card presents 2 drives /dev/fioa and /dev/fiob. These drives could be partitioned OR could be used in LVM (pvcreate,vgcreate,lvcreate) and are mounted and working without any issues.

  However, when these drives are presented to Virtaul machine running on the above mentioned physical
  box (direct physical drive/partition, directory, file system file, pre-formatted block device etc)
  we either get errors at the "pvcreate" stage (even when just place files on the FisionIO drives for
  use as disk devices in the VM) or at the mount stage.

  Are there any special requirements for using this hardware with a qemu based VM?

  pvcreate on the drive gives the following message :

#pvcreate /dev/vdf1
 /dev/vdf1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 2323316736: Input/output error
/dev/vdf1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 2323423232: Input/output error
/dev/vdf1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vdf1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/vdf1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vdf1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 3584: Input/output error
Fatal error while trying to detect swap signature on /dev/vdf1