[ovirt-users] 3.5 live merge findings and mysteries [was Re: Simple way to activate live merge in FC20 cluster]

Sun Jan 4 13:31:45 UTC 2015

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On 15.12.2014 08:33, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Gianluca Cecchi
> <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Adam Litke <alitke at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, please see below for more details.
>>> 
>>> tl; dr;  Live merge works on oVirt-3.5.0 with Fedora 20 hosts
>>> that are using qemu and libvirt packages from the virt-preview
>>> repo. No other configuration is supported yet.  We aim to have
>>> support for RHEL7.1 and later and built-in support for Fedora
>>> 21.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> Sorry... pressed return too quick..
> 
> Understand me, please. My note was about Release Notes page
> misleading in respect with features' set and newcomers... but also
> frequent users too
> 
> At http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes#Live_Merge  ones
> reads:
> 
> " Live Merge If an image has one or more snapshots, oVirt 3.5's
> merge command will combine the data of one volume into another.
> Live merges can be performed with data is pulled from one snapshot
> into another snapshot. The engine can merge multiple disks at the
> same time and each merge can independently fail or succeed in each
> operation. "
> 
> I think you have to mention that it is a restricted use case for
> now... and specify that it works only for Fedora 20 and in that
> case you have to manually modify the repo definition to install the
> qemu packages from virt-preview to get the feature.

This still is not fixed!

I can already see the bugreports coming in, claiming live merge does
not work, because the release notes are very misleading!

Did nobody got the time to fix this?