On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:32:20PM -0600, Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote: > I have looked through the mailing list archives and have seen that > many others before have done this but what I can find is what > technologies were used to complete the task. I tested glusterfs 3.3, KVM/libvirt, ubuntu 12.04. Nothing else required. > Also there have been many > reports on poor performance with running KVM images on Gluster has > version 3.3 fixed many of these "problems"? Write performance remains poor. It would probably be OK to use Gluster as a backend for a mostly-static VM, which mounts a separate gluster volume for large data (which also has the advantage that this data is shareable to other VMs and for easy backup)