Re: [Engine-devel] [vdsm] How to handle qemu 1.3 dep for Gluster Storage Domain

[Adding engine-devel] On 08/06/2013 10:48 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: > Hi All, > There were 2 learnings from BZ > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988299 > > 1) Gluster RPM deps were not proper in VDSM when using Gluster Storage > Domain. This has been partly addressed > by the gluster-devel thread @ > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-08/msg00008.html > and will be fully addressed once Gluster folks ensure their packaging > is friendly enuf for VDSM to consume > just the needed bits. Once that happens, i will be sending a patch to > vdsm.spec.in to update the gluster > deps correctly. So this issue gets addressed in near term. > > 2) Gluster storage domain needs minimum libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3. > > libvirt 1.0.1 has the support for representing gluster as a network > block device and qemu 1.3 has the > native support for gluster block backend which supports gluster://... > URI way of representing a gluster > based file (aka volume/vmdisk in VDSM case). Many distros (incl. > centos 6.4 in the BZ) won't have qemu > 1.3 in their distro repos! How do we handle this dep in VDSM ? > > Do we disable gluster storage domain in oVirt engine if VDSM reports > qemu < 1.3 as part of getCapabilities ? > or > Do we ensure qemu 1.3 is present in ovirt.repo assuming ovirt.repo is > always present on VDSM hosts in which > case when VDSM gets installed, qemu 1.3 dep in vdsm.spec.in will > install qemu 1.3 from the ovirt.repo > instead of the distro repo. This means vdsm.spec.in will have qemu >= > 1.3 under Requires. > Is this possible to make this a conditional install? That is, only if Storage Domain = GlusterFS in the Data center, the bootstrapping of host will install the qemu 1.3 and dependencies. (The question still remains as to where the qemu 1.3 rpms will be available)

> What will be a good way to handle this ? > Appreciate your response > > thanx, > deepak > > _______________________________________________ > vdsm-devel mailing list > vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel _______________________________________________ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel