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

[Dave Christianson]

Fair enough, Kaleb. I shouldn't have let my frustration do the talking.

It's not a show-stopper for me - yet. At this stage I have enough freedom
with this project to keep tinkering and testing. Meanwhile I plan to follow
the SIG team's progress closely.

Thanks everyone for your valuable insight1
Dave


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 03/28/2014 08:07 AM, Dave Christianson wrote:
>
>>
>> Red Hat seems content to do their own thing. Although the versions 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.
>>
>>
> I'm not sure that's a fair expectation.
>
> (As a side note, GlusterFS is a community project -- it's owned by the
> community. Red Hat has a product that it owns -- RHS or RHSS -- that is based
> on GlusterFS.)
>
> Core 'vanilla' RHEL is pretty conservative. Just because "... Red Hat owns
> GlusterFS..." (sic) doesn't mean we get to randomly update the libvirt that
> ships in RHEL. RHEL has its own QA cycle which gates when things like
> libvirt can be updated.
>
> As a result the newer libvirt has to be delivered in a separate channel.
> The fact that CentOS -- which is a clone of vanilla RHEL -- doesn't
> distribute some or all of the things that are in channels is not Red Hat's
> fault.
>
> If there are no RPMs of the newer libvirt available the fault lies with
> the community. The source for the newer libvirt is certainly available, as
> it always is -- it needs is someone in the community to package it for
> general consumption. Someone has done that for Ubuntu! And as John Mark has
> already indicated, that's something that the CentOS Storage SIG is intended
> to address.
>
> And finally, although I can't promise that it will be, it's entirely
> possible that the newer libvirt could be in RHEL 6.6, and then CentOS would
> have it too.
>
> --
>
> Kaleb
>
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