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On 03/28/2014 07:26 PM, SATHEESARAN
wrote:
On 03/28/2014 05:37 PM, Dave
Christianson wrote:
I've come across individual posts from people who
supposedly have done this in CentOS6.5. Basically, all
that is shown in the posts is the XML file generated, no
mention of *how* that file is generated. Virt-manager
has no provision for attaching directly to the gluster
volume except as a mount. Neither virt-manager nor
virt-install recognize the gluster:// type.
Yes, even I was frustrated at this. There seems no way to utilize
the image file using libgfapi.
As Harsha mentioned in his earlier thread, libvirt is yet to
expose this.
I have already raised a bug regarding this, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017308
Supposedly earlier versions of RHEL used qemu-kvm as a
wrapper for qemu-system-x86_64, however in 6.5 qemu-kvm is
its own binary. Qemu-kvm also doesn't recognize the
gluster:// type.
With RHEL 6.5 / Centos 6.5 you can use, "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm"
This was the command that I used to make use of VM Images using
libgfapi in RHEL 6.5
>> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -drive
file=gluster://10.70.37.87/testvol/test.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads
-device
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=0
The above worked for me.
If I am not wrong, the libvirt in RHEL 7 supports glusterfs's
libgfapi way of access mechanism.
Sas,
What about Fedora 20? Fedora 20 should have all the latest RPMs , so
it should have required patches in libvirt too.
-Lala
Debian and Ubuntu supposedly have the newer versions of
gluster and qemu/libvirt availabe (ppa's?). Maybe I'll test
Wheezy...
Red Hat seems content to do their own thing. Although the
verisons 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.
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