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

[Justin Clift]

On 28/03/2014, at 12:07 PM, Dave Christianson wrote:
> I've come across individual posts from people who supposedly have done this in CentOS6.5. Basically, all that is shown in the posts is the XML file generated, no mention of *how* that file is generated. Virt-manager has no provision for attaching directly to the gluster volume except as a mount. Neither virt-manager nor virt-install recognize the gluster:// type.
> 
> Supposedly earlier versions of RHEL used qemu-kvm as a wrapper for qemu-system-x86_64, however in 6.5 qemu-kvm is its own binary. Qemu-kvm also doesn't recognize the gluster:// type.
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> Debian and Ubuntu supposedly have the newer versions of gluster and qemu/libvirt availabe (ppa's?). Maybe I'll test Wheezy...
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> Red Hat seems content to do their own thing. Although the verisons of libvirt and qemu are older, libgfapi is supposed to have been backported. It's a shame that full functionality is not included. It's mindboggling seeing that Red Hat owns glusterfs, you would think full support for the backend would have been included in their product. If it is, as you say, that RH includes this functionality only to RHN subscribers and is not made available downstream to CentOS/SL, and unless I can find a repository with the latest full versions of qemu & libvirt, then CentOS simply will not work.

As a thought, it might be helpful to ask on the libvirt-users mailing list:

  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
  http://libvirt.org/contact.html

Pretty sure the guys who did the actual integration work are on that mailing
list, so should be able to help. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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