[Gluster-users] KVM guest I/O errors with xfs backed gluster volumes

[Jacob Yundt]

> No I've never used raw, I've used lvm (local block device) and qcow2.
> I think you should use the libvirt tools to run VM's and not directly
> use qemu-kvm.

Sorry, I should have provided some more clarification: that was the
error I got from virt-manager.  I'm doing all of my work from
virt-manager (creating VMs, adding storage, starting/stopping VMs,
defining storage pools, etc).


> Are you creating the qcow2 file with qemu-img first? example:
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/xfs/kvm2.img 200G

No, I'm creating the storage from virt-manager.  Host Details -> add a
VirtIO disk etc.  I'll try to pre-create with qemu-img shortly.

> [root@ ~]# virsh pool-dumpxml d34c701f-275c-49d1-92f7-a952d7d5e967
> <pool type='dir'>
>   <name>d34c701f-275c-49d1-92f7-a952d7d5e967</name>
>   <uuid>d34c701f-275c-49d1-92f7-a952d7d5e967</uuid>
>   <capacity unit='bytes'>6593848541184</capacity>
>   <allocation unit='bytes'>505990348800</allocation>
>   <available unit='bytes'>6087858192384</available>
>   <source>
>   </source>
>   <target>
>     <path>/gluster/qcow2</path>
>     <permissions>
>       <mode>0700</mode>
>       <owner>-1</owner>
>       <group>-1</group>
>     </permissions>
>   </target>
> </pool>
>

Thanks for sending this.  The one thing I noticed is that you have
your gluster filesystem pre-mounted and the pool defined as a
"directory".  I've been defining my storage pool as a gluster (netfs)
filesystem.  Similar to using qemu-img, I'll try this as well.

-Jacob