Using the NetBSD iScsi Target code on Solaris

The NetBSD iScsi target will, quite happily, compile and run on Solaris. The code was developed by Alistair Crooks, and is based on code released by Intel, under the BSD licence.

To try it out, I used the Belenix LiveCD distribution of OpenSolaris.

(root)# uname -a
SunOS belenix 5.11 BeleniX0.4.3 i86pc i386 i86pc
(root)# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/foss/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.3/specs
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
(root)# cd tmp
(root)# curl -O http://www.alistaircrooks.co.uk/src/netbsd-iscsi-20060526.tar.gz
(root)# ls -l netbsd-iscsi-20060526.tar.gz
-rw-------   1 root     root      239964 May 27 22:21 netbsd-iscsi-20060526.tar.gz
(root)# gunzip < netbsd-iscsi-20060526.tar.gz | tar xvf -
(root)# cd iscsi
(root)# cd src
(root)# ./configure
(root)# make
(root)# cd ../bin
(root)# ls -l
-rwx------   1 root     root      226580 May 27 22:24 iscsi-harness
 -rwx------   1 root     root      219028 May 27 22:24 iscsi-target

I just wanted to use the iScsi target to confirm if the Microsoft iScsi initiator would work ok with it, and take some Ethereal traces of the initial login sequence. So I just used the following simple configuration file, which exports out a 100 mega byte file.

(root)# cat /etc/iscsi/targets
extent0         /tmp/iscsi-target0      0       100MB

target0         rw      extent0         0.0.0.0/0
(root)# ./iscsi-target &
(root)# ls -l /tmp/iscsi-target0
-rw-------   1 root     root     104857601 May 27 23:17 /tmp/iscsi-target0

I tried the target with v2.03 of the Microdoft iScsi initiator, and and I can report that every thing I tried worked ok.

You can browse the source code of the iScsi target at the NetBSD CVS server. To get the latest version of the code, it may be best to get it from the CVS server.

I've just noted that Alistair make some further changes to the code at the start of 2007, which are noted at this digest.