We had to put oVirt work on hold when F17 would not work on the target hardware. A bug with SAS controllers and grub.
Once F18 is out we will take another look. For now I'm working on using Foreman with libvirt, but I also need to work on Ceph support there as well. Thanks, JOSH On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ayal Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Itamar Heim < [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 09/23/2012 05:33 PM, Josh Logan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Itamar Heim < [email protected] > > > > > > <mailto: [email protected] >> wrote: > > > > On 09/22/2012 08:58 AM, Josh Logan wrote: > > > > > > I'm currently setting up an ovirt cluster and so far it looks > > good. I > > like the integration with Foreman http://theforeman.org/ . > > > > I would like to use Ceph / rbd for my storage. I saw some > > mention of > > patches coming in May, but I did not find any new posts. > > > > What is the status of this work? Is there some patches I can > > try out? > > I have a working Ceph cluster and a working ovirt cluster, I > > just need a > > way to bring them together. > > > > Thanks, JOSH > > > > > > > > I don't remember any active work on this right now (for sure nothing > > like the gluster integration being done). > > but iiuc, ceph provides posixfs support - did you try creating a > > posixfs based storage domain? > > (you would need a "full" host (not ovirt-node) to install ceph > > client components on). > > > > Thanks, > > Itamar > > > > > > > > I am doing my work on Fedora 17 hosts, not ovirt-node, since I know > > this > > will need more OS support. > > > > There are a few different Ceph filesystems. But the posix based one > > is > > the least ready for production. The rbd filesystem is integrated into > > qemu and libvirt is the most suited for VM images. > > > > Are the Gluster patches available? I would like to see what that > > feature looks like and if I can modify them for Ceph. > > If there is a better filesystem to investigate please let me know. > > > > Thanks, JOSH > > > > > > gluster as a native storage domain (rather than posixfs) is still in > > reviews (and has patches only for vdsm side). > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/ 6856/ > > > > you can also use NFS in the meantime if relevant for ceph. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the pointer. I'll follow that and see what I learn. > > > > The vdsm side may be similar since both are network disk device. > > There are only 2 steps needed to start up a VM with rbd. > > > > qemu-img create -f rbd rbd:data/host1 10G > > > > Then to start the image for qemu add -drive > > file=rbd:data/host1,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw > > > > or within libvirt: > > <disk type='network' device='disk'> > > <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> > > <source protocol='rbd' name='data/host1'/> > > <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> > > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' > > function='0x0'/> > > </disk> > > > > So the steps are simple, and maybe Gluster is more complex then I > > should use as an example. > > Have you followed up on this? > Do you need more pointers? > > Regards, > Ayal. > > > > > Thanks, JOSH > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > >
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