[Gluster-users] Boot GSP node with KVM and VirtIO

[Jorgen Rosink]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tejas N. Bhise <tejas at gluster.com> wrote:
> I do not think we have done testing with VirtIO itself yet.
> I would request you to log a bug in gluster bugzilla for this
> so it can be tracked and worked on. It would help if you
> can put as much information in the defect and also help the
> developers when they work on it and if they require more
> information.
>
> Feel free to let us know of any other feedback you have
> with GSP of GlusterFS.
>
> Do let us know how you are using Gluster, the configuration,
> the applications for which you store the data for etc.
>

Tnx for your reply Tejas, will extend the Bugzilla report made below by Chida.


On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Chida Nanda <canand2010 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have experienced the same and virtIO is unsupported at the moment.  VMware
> and VirtualBox worked for me.
>
> I have filed a bug for the KVM issue on your behalf,
> http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=721
>
> Feel free to add anything else I may have missed

Just to be clear, KVM itself is not the problem, only the VirtIO block
device driver (VirtIO ethernet works for me with GSP 3.0.3). KVM with
IDE or iSCSI disks works.