Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu
Deepak, I know that I am not relating to your main issue (sorry...), but... I like the idea of a hook mangling qemu:commandline. Could you (or someone else) contribute such a hook to upstream vdsm? I'm sure many would thank a hook accepting general qemu command line as custom property, and pass it to qemu command line. ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu
On 07/16/2012 04:07 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: I am sure VDSM hook is not the ideal way to add this functionality in VDSM, would request inputs from experts on this list on what would be a better way in VDSM to exploit QEMU-GlusterFS native integration ? Ideally based on the Storage Domain type and options used, there should be a way in VDSM to modify the libvirt XML formed. from your discussion with saggi, the recommended approach was a gluster storage domain. do i understand correctly that here are two ways to consume the images via qemu: block based or file based? would there also be a difference in how these images are provisioned (i.e., would this imply a gluster_fs and a gluster_block storage domains, which sounds somewhat of an overkill, unless there are very good different use cases for this)? ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu
On 07/29/2012 03:47 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Deepak, I know that I am not relating to your main issue (sorry...), but... I like the idea of a hook manglingqemu:commandline. Could you (or someone else) contribute such a hook to upstream vdsm? I'm sure many would thank a hook accepting general qemu command line as custom property, and pass it to qemu command line. Dan, Sure, i remember you asking for this on IRC. Its on my TODO list, and will get to it soon. My priority is the VDSM gluster integration for exploiting the gluster backend of qemu, and I am trying all different options possible, hooks being one of them. thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu
(top posting) Hello All, I am posting a VDSM hook example that helps exploit the QEMU-GlusterFS native integration from VDSM. Since the last time i posted on this thread, there are some changes to the GlusterFS based image/file specification for QEMU. This was done based on the discussion with GlusterFS folks. Bharata (in CC) is primarily working on this. The latest QEMU way of specifying a image/file served by GlusterFS is as below... -drive file=gluster:server@port:volname:imagename,format=gluster Here it takes volname ( instead of volumefile) and server@port as addnl parameters. I have been successfully able to write a sample VDSM stand-alone script a VDSM hook which works along with the stand-alone script to create a VM that exploit the QEMU's native GlusterFS options ( as depicted above ). ( see attached: glusterfs_strg_domain.py 55_qemu_gluster.py) Few important points to note... 1) Quite a few stuff in the attached example .py's are hardcoded for my env. But it shows that things work from a VDSM perspective. 2) Pre-req: vdsmd service is started and gluster volume is setup and started. Gluster volume used in the example is... `kvmfs01-hs22:dpkvol` where `kvmfs01-hs22` is the hostname and `dpkvol` is the GlusterFS volname 3) Copy 55_qemu_gluster.py to /usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_vm_start/ directory 4) Run `python glusterfs_strg_domain.py` -- This should create a blank vmdisk in gluster mount point and create a VM that boots from the blank vmdisk using the -drive qemu option as depicted above, thus exploiting QEMU's gluster block backend support. 4a) While creating the VM, i pass a custom arg ( `use_qemu_gluster` in this case), which causes the VDSM hook of mine to be invoked. 4b) The hook replaces the existing disk xml tag (generated as a normal file path pointing to gluster mount point) with the `-drive file=gluster:server@port:volname:imagename,format=gluster` using qemu:commandline tag support of libvirt. 4c) It also adds a emulator tag to point to my custom qemu, which has gluster block backend support. 4d) Currently libvirt native support for GlusterFS is not yet there, once its present, hook can be changed/modified to exploit the right libvirt tags for the same. 5) If all goes fine :), one should be able to see the VM getting created and from VNC it should be stuck at No boot device found which is obvious, since the VDSM standalone script creates a new Volume ( file in this case ) as a vmdisk, which is a blank disk. 6) I have tried extending the hook to add -cdrom path/to/iso and boot from cdrom and install the OS on the Gluster based vmdisk as part of the VM execution, which also works fine. 7) Since the scenario works fine from a VDSM standalone script, it should work from oVirt side as well, provided the steps necessary to register the custom arg ( `use_qemu_gluster` in this case) with oVirt and supplying the custom arg as part of VM create step is followed. I would like to know comments/feedback on the VDSM hook approach and suggestions on how to improvise on the hook implementation, especially for some of the stuff that is hardcoded. I am sure VDSM hook is not the ideal way to add this functionality in VDSM, would request inputs from experts on this list on what would be a better way in VDSM to exploit QEMU-GlusterFS native integration ? Ideally based on the Storage Domain type and options used, there should be a way in VDSM to modify the libvirt XML formed. Appreciate feedback/suggestions. thanx, deepak On 07/05/2012 05:24 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hello All, Any updates/comments on this mail, anybody ? More comments/questions inline below 'would appreciate response which can help me here. thanx, deepak On 06/27/2012 06:44 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hello, Recently there were patches posted in qemu-devel to support gluster as a block backend for qemu. This introduced new way of specifying drive location to qemu as ... -drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name where... volumefile is the gluster volume file name ( say gluster volume is pre-configured on the host ) image name is the name of the image file on the gluster mount point I wrote a vdsm standalone script using SHAREDFS ( which maps to PosixFs ) taking cues from http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_Standalone The conndict passed to connectStorageServer is as below... [dict(id=1, connection=kvmfs01-hs22:dpkvol, vfs_type=glusterfs, mnt_options=)] Here note that 'dpkvol' is the name of the gluster volume I and am able to create and invoke a VM backed by a image file residing on gluster mount. But since this is SHAREDFS way, the qemu -drive cmdline generated via VDSM is ... -drive file=/rhev/datacentre/mnt/ -- which eventually softlinks to the image file on the gluster mount point. I was looking to write a vdsm hook to be able to change the above to -drive
Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu
Hello All, Any updates/comments on this mail, anybody ? More comments/questions inline below 'would appreciate response which can help me here. thanx, deepak On 06/27/2012 06:44 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hello, Recently there were patches posted in qemu-devel to support gluster as a block backend for qemu. This introduced new way of specifying drive location to qemu as ... -drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name where... volumefile is the gluster volume file name ( say gluster volume is pre-configured on the host ) image name is the name of the image file on the gluster mount point I wrote a vdsm standalone script using SHAREDFS ( which maps to PosixFs ) taking cues from http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_Standalone The conndict passed to connectStorageServer is as below... [dict(id=1, connection=kvmfs01-hs22:dpkvol, vfs_type=glusterfs, mnt_options=)] Here note that 'dpkvol' is the name of the gluster volume I and am able to create and invoke a VM backed by a image file residing on gluster mount. But since this is SHAREDFS way, the qemu -drive cmdline generated via VDSM is ... -drive file=/rhev/datacentre/mnt/ -- which eventually softlinks to the image file on the gluster mount point. I was looking to write a vdsm hook to be able to change the above to -drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name which means I would need access to some of the conndict params inside the hook, esp. the 'connection' to extract the volume name. 1) In looking at the current VDSM code, i don't see a way for the hook to know anything abt the storage domain setup. So the only way is to have the user pass a custom param which provides the path to the volumefile image and use it in the hook. Is there a better way ? Can i use the vdsm gluster plugin support inside the hook to determine the volfile from the volname, assuming I only take the volname as the custom param, and determine imagename from the existing source file = .. tag ( basename is the image name). Wouldn't it be better to provide a way for hooks to access ( readonly) storage domain parameters, so that they can use that do implement the hook logic in a more saner way ? 2) In talking to Eduardo, it seems there are discussion going on to see how prepareVolumePath and prepareImage could be exploited to fit gluster ( and in future other types) based images. I am not very clear on the image and volume code of vdsm, frankly its very complex and hard to understand due to lack of comments. I would appreciate if someone can guide me on what is the best way to achive my goal (-drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name) here. Any short term solutions if not perfect solution are also appreciated, so that I can atleast have a working setup where I just run my VDSM standaloen script and my qemu cmdline using gluster:... is generated. Currently I am using qemu:commandline tag facility of libvirt to inject the needed qemu options and hardcoding the volname, imagename but i would like to do this based on the conndict passed by the user when creating SHAREDFS domain. I am using VDSM hook to customise the libvirt xml to add -drive file=gluster: cmdline option, but facing issues as below... NOTE: I am using the libvirt's generic qemu:commandline tag facility to add my needed qemu options. 1) I replace the existing disk tag with my new qemu:commandline tag to introduce -drive file=gluster: This is what i add in my vdsm hook... qemu:commandline qemu:arg value=-drive/ qemu:arg value=file=gluster:/var/lib/glusterd/vols/dpkvol/dpkvol-qemu.vol:/d536ca42-9dd2-40a2-bd45-7e5c67751698/images/e9d31bc2-9fb6-4803-aa88-5563229aad41/1c3463aa-be2c-4405--7283b166e981,format=gluster/ /qemu:commandline/domain In this case the qemu process is created ( as seen from ps aux) but the VM is in stopped state, vdsm does not start it, and using virsh i cannot, it says 'unable to acquire some lock There is no way i can force start it from the vdscli cmdline too. From the vdsm.log all i can see is till the point vdsm dumps the libvirt xml... then nothing happens. In other cases ( when i am not using this custom cmdline and the standard disk tag is present ).. i see the below msgs in vdsm.log after it dumps libvirt xml... libvirtEventLoop::DEBUG::2012-07-05 13:52:17,780::libvirtvm::2409::vm.Vm::(_onLibvirtLifecycleEvent) vmId=`1eb2b3f7-a319-44fe-8263-fd6e770db983`::event Started detail 0 opaque None Thread-49::DEBUG::2012-07-05 13:52:17,819::utils::329::vm.Vm::(start) vmId=`1eb2b3f7-a319-44fe-8263-fd6e770db983`::Start statistics collection Thread-51::DEBUG::2012-07-05 13:52:17,819::utils::358::vm.Vm::(run) vmId=`1eb2b3f7-a319-44fe-8263-fd6e770db983`::Stats thread started Thread-51::DEBUG::2012-07-05 13:52:17,821::task::588::TaskManager.Task::(_updateState) Task=`f66ac43a-1528-491c-bdee-37112dac536c`::moving from state init - state preparing Thread-51::INFO::2012-07-05
[vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu
Hello, Recently there were patches posted in qemu-devel to support gluster as a block backend for qemu. This introduced new way of specifying drive location to qemu as ... -drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name where... volumefile is the gluster volume file name ( say gluster volume is pre-configured on the host ) image name is the name of the image file on the gluster mount point I wrote a vdsm standalone script using SHAREDFS ( which maps to PosixFs ) taking cues from http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_Standalone The conndict passed to connectStorageServer is as below... [dict(id=1, connection=kvmfs01-hs22:dpkvol, vfs_type=glusterfs, mnt_options=)] Here note that 'dpkvol' is the name of the gluster volume I and am able to create and invoke a VM backed by a image file residing on gluster mount. But since this is SHAREDFS way, the qemu -drive cmdline generated via VDSM is ... -drive file=/rhev/datacentre/mnt/ -- which eventually softlinks to the image file on the gluster mount point. I was looking to write a vdsm hook to be able to change the above to -drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name which means I would need access to some of the conndict params inside the hook, esp. the 'connection' to extract the volume name. 1) In looking at the current VDSM code, i don't see a way for the hook to know anything abt the storage domain setup. So the only way is to have the user pass a custom param which provides the path to the volumefile image and use it in the hook. Is there a better way ? Can i use the vdsm gluster plugin support inside the hook to determine the volfile from the volname, assuming I only take the volname as the custom param, and determine imagename from the existing source file = .. tag ( basename is the image name). Wouldn't it be better to provide a way for hooks to access ( readonly) storage domain parameters, so that they can use that do implement the hook logic in a more saner way ? 2) In talking to Eduardo, it seems there are discussion going on to see how prepareVolumePath and prepareImage could be exploited to fit gluster ( and in future other types) based images. I am not very clear on the image and volume code of vdsm, frankly its very complex and hard to understand due to lack of comments. I would appreciate if someone can guide me on what is the best way to achive my goal (-drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name) here. Any short term solutions if not perfect solution are also appreciated, so that I can atleast have a working setup where I just run my VDSM standaloen script and my qemu cmdline using gluster:... is generated. Currently I am using qemu:commandline tag facility of libvirt to inject the needed qemu options and hardcoding the volname, imagename but i would like to do this based on the conndict passed by the user when creating SHAREDFS domain. thanx, deepak ___ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
