Can bhyve pass disk vendor, model and serial values to guests?

[Wanpeng Qian]

Hi Gregg

There is a patch for this, but you have to apply manually for 12.1R

You can get it here

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24174

2020年6月20日(土) 8:23 Rob Roy Gregg <rr at robroygregg.com>:

>
> FreeBSD Friends,
>
> I tried the forums and thought I'd ask here next; here's the thread:
>
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/can-bhyve-pass-disk-vendor-model-and-serial-values-to-guests.75851/
>
> This is on 12.1-RELEASE-p6.
>
> Can bhyve pass disks to guests in a way that preserves the disk's actual
> vendor, model and serial values (as viewed from inside of the guest)?
>
> Here's how a passed-in disk looks inside the guest with ahci-hd emulation:
>
>    linux_in_bhyve# lsblk --output vendor,model,serial /dev/sda
>    VENDOR   MODEL            SERIAL
>    ATA      BHYVE SATA DISK  BHYVE-FC87-ABA5-711B
>
> And with virtio-blk emulation:
>
>    linux_in_bhyve# lsblk -o vendor,model,serial /dev/vdb
>    VENDOR MODEL SERIAL
>    0x1af4
>
> Meanwhile, a similar disk configured on ESXi 5.5 U3b as a "pass-through
> RDM" looks like this; this is what I'd like to see in the bhyve guest
> also:
>
>    linux_in_esxi# lsblk -o vendor,model,serial /dev/sdb
>    VENDOR   MODEL            SERIAL
>    HITACHI  OPEN-V-CM        60060e801602a100000102a100000bba
>
> Thank you!
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