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

[Dave Christianson]

Good Evening,

I have read that libgfapi has been backported to qemu-kvm in RHEL 6.5 (and
by virtue CentOS and SL). However I am unable to figure out how to actually
make it work as described. Virt-manager still only seems to support
glusterfs volumes via fuse.

I can use qemu-img to create a disk image on gluster://<server>/<Volume>.
But virt-manager can only use it from a fuse mounted fileshare. There seems
to be no ability to attach in virt-manager directly to the image on
glusterfs using libgfapi.

All documents I've found describe the use of the command
"qemu-system-x86_64," however that command does not exist in CentOS 6.5.
That appears to be the only way to start the domain using libgfapi. So
basically, I can create an image via libgfapi but cannot do anything useful
with it.

Should I be able to do this? If so, what's the procedure? Or is CentOS/RHEL
6.5 just not fully integrated? I really want to be able to use libgfapi and
avoid the performance penalty of fuse. Should I just grab & compile the
latest verisons of libvirt and qemu-kvm?
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