On 28/03/2014, at 12:07 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

As a thought, it might be helpful to ask on the libvirt-users mailing list:

  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
  http://libvirt.org/contact.html

Pretty sure the guys who did the actual integration work are on that mailing
list, so should be able to help. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

--
Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat

twitter.com/realjustinclift

_______________________________________________
Gluster-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users

Reply via email to