[Gluster-users] RPMs for libvirt-1.2.3 for CentOS now available

Lalatendu Mohanty lmohanty at redhat.com
Mon Apr 7 14:24:10 UTC 2014


On 04/07/2014 07:28 PM, Nux! wrote:
> On 07.04.2014 14:41, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
>> RPMs for latest libvirt upstream release i.e. version 1.2.3 is
>> available for CentOS is avalable at Yum repo[1] .
>>
>> Libvirt 1.2.3 has major bug fixes for GlusterFS and also supports
>> qemu/libvirt snapshots on GlusterFS. The change log can be found
>> here[2].
>>
>> However for snapshot support from QEMU,  we need QEMU 2.0, which will
>> be released in couple of weeks from the upstream project.
>>
>> [1] http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/libvirt/CentOS/
>> [2] http://libvirt.org/news.html
>
> Hello Lala,
>
> Where can I read more about these qemu/gluster snapshots? How are they 
> different from the Qemu/qcow2 snapshots?
>
> Lucian
>
Hey Lucian,

Sorry I was not clear in my previous mail. The snapshot is the same 
Qemu/qcow2 snapshots. Now this is supported on VM images run through 
libgfapi+GlusterFS. Previously the libvirt/qemu snapshots were supported 
for fuse mounted gluster volumes.

Thanks,
Lala



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