Yrurtj

I have fallowed the steps from Arch Linux #KVM and #qemu

1) sudo pacman -S then installed libs

libvirt

libiscsi 

libaio

qemu

qemu-arch-extra 

qemu-block-iscsi 

qemu-block-rbd 

qemu-block-gluster 

2) $ lscpu check if VT-x is enabled

3) added the .conf file in the /etc/modprobe.d/ for the fallowing modules:

network device (virtio-net)

block device (virtio-blk)

controller device (virtio-scsi)

serial device (virtio-serial)

balloon device (virtio-balloon)

4) I have included and run the mkinitcpio.conf the modconf hook to load the modules in initramfs.

5) run $ lsinitcpio

I think is an issues here because in the output i don't see any virtualization module loaded:

usr/lib/modules

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/modules.devname

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/modules.builtin.bin

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/modules.symbols.bin

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/modules.alias.bin

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/modules.dep.bin

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/sdhci.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/ext4.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/usb-common.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/ehci-pci.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/sd_mod.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/rtsx_pci_sdmmc.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/serio.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/cdrom.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/hid.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/ehci-hcd.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/sdhci-acpi.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/atkbd.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/xhci-pci.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/usbhid.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/xhci-hcd.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/sr_mod.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/crc16.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/rtsx_pci.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/libps2.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/libahci.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/led-class.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/scsi_mod.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/mmc_core.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/mmc_block.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/i8042.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/usbcore.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/ahci.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/libata.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/mbcache.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/usb-storage.ko

usr/lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/jbd2.ko

6) When I run :

$ modinfo virtio-scsi I get the fallowing answer :

filename:       /lib/modules/4.5.4-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.ko.gz

license:        GPL

description:    Virtio SCSI HBA driver

alias:          virtio:d00000008v*

depends:        virtio,scsi_mod,virtio_ring

intree:         Y

vermagic:       4.5.4-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 

$ systool -v -m virtio-scsi and here for same module I get an error msg:

Error opening module `virtio-scsi`

7) And when I try to create a qemu image $ qemu-img create -f raw arch-qemu 8G
i get the fallowing error:

$ Failed to open module:libiscsi.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help is appreciated !

I manage to fix the issue after I installed manually an older version (v1.14.0) of libiscsi where qemu could find the libiscsi.so.4 file.

First I removed the v1.17.0-2 installed with pacman
sudo pacman -Rddn libiscsi without uninstalling the qemu-block-iscsi dependency.

I cloned the source code from github sahlberg/libiscsi and after the build I installed the library with libtool. I'm aware that this is not the best solution because on the next update of qemu i will have to remove my manual install and use the pacman package again.

For the moment I see that on the arch linux qemu-page the package is :

Flagged out-of-date on 2016-05-10 Version 2.6.0-1 in testing

code executed as root:

# git clone folder - libiscsi/



# Making install in lib

# directory 'libiscsi/lib'



 mkdir -p '/usr/lib'

 /bin/sh ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   libiscsi.la '/usr/lib'



 libtool --finish /usr/lib



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# Libraries have been installed in: /usr/lib



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# Making install in utils

# directory 'libiscsi/utils'



 mkdir -p '/usr/bin'

 /bin/sh ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c iscsi-inq iscsi-ls iscsi-perf iscsi-readcapacity16 iscsi-swp '/usr/bin'



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# directory 'libiscsi/examples'



 mkdir -p '/usr/bin'

 install -c ld_iscsi.so '/usr/bin'



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# directory 'libiscsi/    



 mkdir -p '/usr/include/iscsi'

 install -c -m 644 include/iscsi.h include/scsi-lowlevel.h '/usr/include/iscsi'

 mkdir -p '/usr/lib/pkgconfig'

 install -c -m 644 libiscsi.pc '/usr/lib/pkgconfig'

I had run the commands manually because by default the make install from libiscsi was installing the lib in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome!