Novell SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 SP1 - 8-18-2010 VIRTUALIZATION WITH ZEN Manual page 70

• A remote storage device specified using a Fibre Channel (NPIV) protocol.
npiv:210400e08b80c40f
To specify a mapping between physical storage and the virtual disk, you might need to
edit the virtual machine's disk information. Follow the instructions in Section 5.3,
"Configuring a Virtual Machine by Modifying its Xend Settings" (page 37), to change
the respective device entry to the desired setting.
Example 7.1 Example: Virtual Machine Output from Xend
(vbd
(dev xvda:disk)
(uname file:/var/lib/xen/images/sles11/disk0)
(mode w)
(type disk)
(backend 0)
)
Table 7.1
Protocol
phy:
file:
nbd:
tap:aio:
tap:cdrom
tap:vmdk:
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Available uname Settings
Description
Block devices, such as a physical disk,
in domain 0
Raw disk images accessed by using
loopback
Raw disk images accessed by using NBD
Raw disk images accessed by using
blktap. Similar to loopback but with-
out using loop devices.
CD reader block devices
VMware disk images accessed by using
blktap
Example
phy:/dev/sdc
file:/path/file
ndb: ip_port
tap:aio:/path/file
tap:cdrom:/dev/sr0
tap:vmdk:/path/file