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

[Nux!]

On 07.04.2014 15:24, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
> 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

Oh, this is quite a big deal. So one can't take snapshots of VMs 
running on libgfapi right now unless they use Qemu 2.0?

Lucian

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