[Gluster-users] Possible to use libgfapi with libvirt in CentOS 6.5?

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On 28.03.2014 12:07, Dave Christianson wrote:
> I've come across individual posts from people who supposedly have done 
> this
> in CentOS6.5. Basically, all that is shown in the posts is the XML 
> file
> generated, no mention of *how* that file is generated. Virt-manager 
> has no
> provision for attaching directly to the gluster volume except as a 
> mount.
> Neither virt-manager nor virt-install recognize the gluster:// type.

I have used this functionality with Cloudstack on CentOS 6.5 with stock 
KVM, it works.
What you need is:
-drive 
file=gluster+tcp://storage.cloudstack.tld:24007/primary/d691ac19-4ec1-47c1-b765-55f804b78bec

Right now you need to fuse-mount the gluster volume to create the 
backing file, but you can start the vm using gfapi as above.
See this article from Nield de Vos who authored the native Glusterfs 
storage driver for Cloudstack:

http://www.gluster.org/2014/02/setting-up-a-test-environment-for-apache-cloudstack-and-gluster/

HTH
Lucian

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