Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
- Forwarded Message - From: Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com To: Sahina Bose sab...@redhat.com Cc: engine-devel engine-de...@ovirt.org, VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/07/2013 08:21 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: [Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available) RHEL6.5 (and so CentOS 6.5) will get backported libgfapi support so we shouldn't need to require qemu 1.3 just the appropriate qemu-kvm version from 6.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848070 hosts are installed prior to storage domain definition usually. we need to find a solution to having a qemu 1.3 for .el6 (or another version of qemu with this feature set). What will be a good way to handle this ? Appreciate your response thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On 08/12/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Forwarded Message - From: Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com To: Sahina Bose sab...@redhat.com Cc: engine-devel engine-de...@ovirt.org, VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/07/2013 08:21 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: [Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available) RHEL6.5 (and so CentOS 6.5) will get backported libgfapi support so we shouldn't need to require qemu 1.3 just the appropriate qemu-kvm version from 6.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848070 So IIUC this means we don't do anything special in vdsm.spec.in to handle qemu 1.3 dep ? If so... what happens when User uses F17/F18 ( as an example) on the VDSM host.. their repos probably won't have qemu-kvm which has libgfapi support... how do we handle it. Do we just release-note it ? thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On 08/12/2013 06:32 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 8:59:37 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/12/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Forwarded Message - From: Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com To: Sahina Bose sab...@redhat.com Cc: engine-devel engine-de...@ovirt.org, VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/07/2013 08:21 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: [Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available) RHEL6.5 (and so CentOS 6.5) will get backported libgfapi support so we shouldn't need to require qemu 1.3 just the appropriate qemu-kvm version from 6.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848070 So IIUC this means we don't do anything special in vdsm.spec.in to handle qemu 1.3 dep ? If so... what happens when User uses F17/F18 ( as an example) on the VDSM host.. their repos probably won't have qemu-kvm which has libgfapi support... how do we handle it. Do we just release-note it ? For Fedora SPEC we'd need to handle use a =1.3 dependency but for *EL6 it'd need to be 0.12-whaterver-6.5-has I would love to hear how. I am waiting on some resolution for this, so that I can close the 3.3 blocker BZ For Fedora if I put qemu-kvm = 1.3 in vdsm.spec.in, then F17/F18 can't be used as a VDSM host, that may not be acceptable. thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On 08/12/2013 07:22 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:39:21 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/12/2013 06:32 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 8:59:37 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/12/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Forwarded Message - From: Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com To: Sahina Bose sab...@redhat.com Cc: engine-devel engine-de...@ovirt.org, VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/07/2013 08:21 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: [Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available) RHEL6.5 (and so CentOS 6.5) will get backported libgfapi support so we shouldn't need to require qemu 1.3 just the appropriate qemu-kvm version from 6.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848070 So IIUC this means we don't do anything special in vdsm.spec.in to handle qemu 1.3 dep ? If so... what happens when User uses F17/F18 ( as an example) on the VDSM host.. their repos probably won't have qemu-kvm which has libgfapi support... how do we handle it. Do we just release-note it ? For Fedora SPEC we'd need to handle use a =1.3 dependency but for *EL6 it'd need to be 0.12-whaterver-6.5-has I would love to hear how. I am waiting on some resolution for this, so that I can close the 3.3 blocker BZ For Fedora if I put qemu-kvm = 1.3 in vdsm.spec.in, then F17/F18 can't be used as a VDSM host, that may not be acceptable. What options do we have for fedora f19? virt-preview may be an option for F18 but F17 is out of luck .. what do you mean by 'out of luck'.. I thot virt-preview had F17/F18 repos, no ? Another Q to answer would be.. Do we support F17 as a valid vdsm host for 3.3 ? ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
- Original Message - From: Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:55:45 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/12/2013 07:22 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:39:21 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/12/2013 06:32 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 8:59:37 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/12/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Forwarded Message - From: Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com To: Sahina Bose sab...@redhat.com Cc: engine-devel engine-de...@ovirt.org, VDSM Project Development vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain On 08/07/2013 08:21 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: [Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available) RHEL6.5 (and so CentOS 6.5) will get backported libgfapi support so we shouldn't need to require qemu 1.3 just the appropriate qemu-kvm version from 6.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848070 So IIUC this means we don't do anything special in vdsm.spec.in to handle qemu 1.3 dep ? If so... what happens when User uses F17/F18 ( as an example) on the VDSM host.. their repos probably won't have qemu-kvm which has libgfapi support... how do we handle it. Do we just release-note it ? For Fedora SPEC we'd need to handle use a =1.3 dependency but for *EL6 it'd need to be 0.12-whaterver-6.5-has I would love to hear how. I am waiting on some resolution for this, so that I can close the 3.3 blocker BZ For Fedora if I put qemu-kvm = 1.3 in vdsm.spec.in, then F17/F18 can't be used as a VDSM host, that may not be acceptable. What options do we have for fedora f19? virt-preview may be an option for F18 but F17 is out of luck .. what do you mean by 'out of luck'.. I thot virt-preview had F17/F18 repos, no ? As I said, virt-preview may be an option for F18 as it has a newer version of qemu in there but F17's virt-preview doesn't have a new enough version of qemu Another Q to answer would be.. Do we support F17 as a valid vdsm host for 3.3 ? ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On 08/12/2013 04:55 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: what do you mean by 'out of luck'.. I thot virt-preview had F17/F18 repos, no ? Another Q to answer would be.. Do we support F17 as a valid vdsm host for 3.3 ? iirc, F17 isn't supported by fedora once F19 is out, so no more updates to it. using fedora you are moving fast, but with a shorter support/update cycle i guess. I don't think anyone tested 3.3 on F17. ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/12/2013 04:55 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: what do you mean by 'out of luck'.. I thot virt-preview had F17/F18 repos, no ? Another Q to answer would be.. Do we support F17 as a valid vdsm host for 3.3 ? iirc, F17 isn't supported by fedora once F19 is out, so no more updates to it. using fedora you are moving fast, but with a shorter support/update cycle i guess. F17 entered EOL on 07/30: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life -Vijay I don't think anyone tested 3.3 on F17. __**_ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.**org vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.**org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-**develhttps://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On 08/12/2013 09:50 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com mailto:ih...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/12/2013 04:55 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: what do you mean by 'out of luck'.. I thot virt-preview had F17/F18 repos, no ? Another Q to answer would be.. Do we support F17 as a valid vdsm host for 3.3 ? iirc, F17 isn't supported by fedora once F19 is out, so no more updates to it. using fedora you are moving fast, but with a shorter support/update cycle i guess. F17 entered EOL on 07/30: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life -Vijay Thanks all.. I was concerned abt F17, since vdsm.spec still has = F17 in many places. Good 2 know that i don't have to worry abt F17. Will post vdsm.spec changes in a patch soon. I don't think anyone tested 3.3 on F17. ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org mailto:vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
On 08/07/2013 08:21 AM, Sahina Bose wrote: [Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available) hosts are installed prior to storage domain definition usually. we need to find a solution to having a qemu 1.3 for .el6 (or another version of qemu with this feature set). What will be a good way to handle this ? Appreciate your response thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
[vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain
Hi All, There were 2 learnings from BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage Domain. This has been partly addressed by the gluster-devel thread @ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg8.html and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network block device and qemu 1.3 has the native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... URI way of representing a gluster based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports qemu 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? or Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is always present on VDSM hosts in which case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu = 1.3 under Requires. What will be a good way to handle this ? Appreciate your response thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
