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

[Bharata B Rao]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> 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?


AFAIK, QEMU (with libgfapi) supported offline (driven by qemu-img) as well
as live snapshot  (using snapshot_blkdev qemu monitor cmd) of a running VM
diskimage right from QEMU-1.3.

Regards,
Bharata.
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