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

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 04/07/2014 08:54 PM, Nux! wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, thats right. I think the patches might get back ported to other 
branches too and may be available in EL6.X. But I have no direct 
knowledge about it.

-Lala