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Hi guys,
Currently, ISO domain is only supported on NFS storage. It could
improve the ease of use if it allows other types
of file based storage to store ISO images. After an
investigation, I
found there's not any restriction on this idea.
So the whole work is removing the limitation on engine side. That
means engine should allow ISO domain could
have different storage type from the data center it's attached,
like
what we do with nfs ISO domain in SAN DC.
I start this idea with localfs. I know local storage can't be
seen in
cluster level. But it also provides a choice if no
NFS available. VMs can be created on the host which has the ISO
repo,
and then be migrated to any other host in the cluster.
I have done the initial patches: allow creation ISO domain on
localfs
[1] and support import ISO domain on localfs [2]
I don't have much experience in java/j2ee/web development and
engine
architecture. The patches just work for me.
I am not sure if it will bring some potential problems. So any
feedback on the patch or the idea will be appreciated very much.
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Haven't looked at the patches yet, but wrt the idea, I agree on
the
need (being able to attach ISOs from anywhere and not just nfs)
but I
think the way to do this should be by getting rid of the ISO
domain
type altogether.
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I think ISO domain on localfs is useful for a simple setup or demo,
such as oVirt all-in-one.
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1. a way to connect to file based storage (let's leave block aside
for now) - this already exists via the connectStorageServer verb
2. a way to list and present a file system tree in gui (give an
arbitrary path to vdsm and list content) and possibly filter
results
by type (vfd, iso) - does not exist today. Possibly some security
aspects here that need hashing out.
3. a way to specify a path to a file when attaching an iso/vfd to
a
VM - this is the way it works today
This would devoid the need for isoUploader and allow users to
simply
manage an nfs export with files.
Next step would be to make connectStorageServer support httpfs [1]
and then we'd be able to mount ISOs directly over http (hopefully
this would be sufficient to support ISOs stored on S3, swift,
glance,
etc).
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Actually, we could use the qemu curl backend image support
directly.
That means we don't need mount the place storing ISO images. We can
just maintain a list of ISO image with its link, which could be
http,
ftp and ssh.
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That will be fine to start a VM on a existing extern ISO image. I
also
would like to maintain a ISO image cache on the local host to avoid
to
re-streaming the ISO image from the ISO image repositories every
time.
That will be helpful for people who is suffered from the network
bottleneck.
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We have a similar requirement for glance support (not limited to ISOs, rather to all read-only images) so that should be tackled with a broader solution.</pre>
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In that case, I suppose qemu's copy-on-read + httpfs (you mentioned
above) could help. It
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can avoid accessing the same backing file sectors repeatedly. <br>
But the copied content can't be shared by multiple VM using the same
backend image.<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/">http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/</a>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12687/">http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12687/</a>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12916/">http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12916/</a>
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