On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 01:25:55PM +0200, Sebastian Wiedenroth wrote: > > This patch brings support to manage sheepdog pools and volumes to libvirt. > It uses the "collie" command-line utility that comes with sheepdog for that. > > A sheepdog pool in libvirt maps to a sheepdog cluster. > It needs a host and port to connect to, which in most cases > is just going to be the default of localhost on port 7000. > > A sheepdog volume in libvirt maps to a sheepdog vdi. > To create one specify the pool, a name and the capacity. > Volumes can also be resized later. > > In the volume XML the vdi name has to be put into the <target><path>. > To use the volume as a disk source for virtual machines specify > the vdi name as "name" attribute of the <source>. > The host and port information from the pool are specified inside the host tag. > > <disk type='network'> > ... > <source protocol="sheepdog" name="vdi_name"> > <host name="localhost" port="7000"/> > </source> > </disk> > > To work right this patch parses the output of collie, > so it relies on the raw output option. There recently was a bug which caused > size information to be reported wrong. This is fixed upstream already and > will be in the next release. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi@xxxxxxxxxx> ACK, this looks good to me & I have pushed it. We can deal with any further problems we might identify as followup patches. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list