I think the version of Libvirt included with RHEL/CentOS supports RBD storage (but not pools), so outside of compiling a newer version not sure there can be anything else done aside from waiting for repo additions/newer versions of the distro.
Not sure what your scenario is, but this is the exact reason we switched our underlying virtualization infrastructure to Ubuntu. Their cloud archive PPA has updated packages for QEMU/KVM, Libvirt, Open vSwitch, etc. that are backported for LTS releases, and is something I personally think RHEL is WAY behind the curve on (getting better with their RDO initiative though). We didn't like consuming resources validating that updated builds of QEMU/Libvirt were going to cause problems and just allocated those resources to learning the Ubuntu environment.
As far as streamlining management on top of that, you have some options (outside of virt-manager, which has no native support for RBD IIRC) like Proxmox (which is an entire solution like ESXi/Hyper-V using KVM) or something like OpenStack or OpenNebula (we use OpenNebula). Beats having to edit domains by hand. ;-)
From: "Chris C" <mazzystr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dan van der Ster" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 10:37:03 AM
Subject: Re: centos6.4 + libvirt + qemu + rbd/ceph
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To: "Dan van der Ster" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 10:37:03 AM
Subject: Re: centos6.4 + libvirt + qemu + rbd/ceph
Dan,
I found the thread but it looks like another dead end :(
/Chris C
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Dan van der Ster <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
See thread a couple days ago " qemu-kvm packages for centos"
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Chris C <mazzystr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been working on getting this setup working. I have virtual machines
> working using rbd based images by editing the domain directly.
>
> Is there any way to make the creation process better? We are hoping to be
> able to use a virsh pool using the rbd driver but it appears that Redhat has
> not compiled libvirt with rbd support.
>
> Thought?
>
> Thanks,
> /Chris C
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