On 03/28/2014 08:07 AM, Dave Christianson wrote:
Red Hat seems content to do their own thing. Although the versions of
libvirt and qemu are older, libgfapi is supposed to have been
backported. It's a shame that full functionality is not included. It's
mindboggling seeing that Red Hat owns glusterfs, you would think full
support for the backend would have been included in their product. If it
is, as you say, that RH includes this functionality only to RHN
subscribers and is not made available downstream to CentOS/SL, and
unless I can find a repository with the latest full versions of qemu &
libvirt, then CentOS simply will not work.
I'm not sure that's a fair expectation.
(As a side note, GlusterFS is a community project — it's owned by the
community. Red Hat has a product that it owns — RHS or RHSS — that is
based on GlusterFS.)
Core 'vanilla' RHEL is pretty conservative. Just because "... Red Hat
owns GlusterFS..." (sic) doesn't mean we get to randomly update the
libvirt that ships in RHEL. RHEL has its own QA cycle which gates when
things like libvirt can be updated.
As a result the newer libvirt has to be delivered in a separate channel.
The fact that CentOS — which is a clone of vanilla RHEL — doesn't
distribute some or all of the things that are in channels is not Red
Hat's fault.
If there are no RPMs of the newer libvirt available the fault lies with
the community. The source for the newer libvirt is certainly available,
as it always is — it needs is someone in the community to package it for
general consumption. Someone has done that for Ubuntu! And as John Mark
has already indicated, that's something that the CentOS Storage SIG is
intended to address.
And finally, although I can't promise that it will be, it's entirely
possible that the newer libvirt could be in RHEL 6.6, and then CentOS
would have it too.
--
Kaleb
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