[Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

[Sander Eikelenboom]

Saturday, November 30, 2013, 12:32:50 AM, you wrote:






> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Sander Eikelenboom <linux at eikelenboom.it> wrote:
>   
> Hi,
>  
>  I'm using glusterfs for quite some time on my server for shared-storage to VM's.
>  At the moment this had to go over tcp/ip bridge between host and guests, so
>  i was interested in the option to use glusterfs directly with qemu. But it seems it
>  only supports to expose individual images files that reside on a glusterfs brick.
>  
>  Would it be possible to extend this and make a complete brick available as disk to qemu as shared storage ?
>  (so multiple vm's and the host can share this same storage space)




> Sounds like you want to use Gluster as a backing store for the VM images through qemu, but in addition, you probably want to mount a common glusterfs volume inside the vms as well. That's how you do it!
>

But that common glusterfs would be using tcp/ip then and not libgfapi or not ?

Could be i'm misreading the docs but specifying the image file seems mandatory:

Gluster drive specification in QEMU
­drive file=gluster://server[:port]/volname/image[?transport=...]

And since using libgfapi should benefit performance by removing the necessity to converting everything to networking packets and vice versa.

So it would be nice if i could do:

VM1 qemu:
­drive file=gluster://server[:port]/volname

VM qemu:
­drive file=gluster://server[:port]/volname

And that volume would be mountable in the VM (as a block device), don't know if that would be easily possible
though since it probably is not a real normal block device.



> Cheers,
> James

>   

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