[Users] oVirt 3.3.3 RC EL6 Live Snapshot

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 18:40 +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 01/23/2014 05:00 PM, Sander Grendelman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I´ve gone through upgrading from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 RC on CentOS 6.5 in our
> >> test environment, went off without a hitch, so "good job" guys! However
> >> something I´d very much like to see fixed is live snapshots for CentOS,
> >> especially since it seems to be fixed already for Fedora. Issue already
> >> been discussed:
> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/019090.html
> >>
> >> Is this something that can be targeted for 3.3.3 GA?
> >
> > The problem is that you need a different qemu-kvm package for live snapshots.
> > At the moment the only way to get this package is building it from the srpm:
> > http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.3.src.rpm
> > (It's a drop-in replacement).
> >
> > This version should probably be included in the oVirt or CentOS repositories.
> 
> there is a CentOS Cloud SIG being discussed where we'd like to see this 
> resolved. feel free to chime in (maybe cc ovirt mailing list on relevant 
> threads)
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-January/009451.html
> 

Awesome you´re discussing this with CentOS, that´s just what I what
hoping for! Though, at this point the discussing seemed rather fluffy,
nothing substantial.

How would you developers, speaking for the oVirt-community, propose to
solve this for CentOS _now_ ?

I would imagine that the easiest way is that you build and host this one
package(qemu-kvm-rhev), since you´ve basically already have the source
and recipe (since you´re already providing it for RHEV anyway). Then,
once that´s in place, it´s more a question of where to host the
packages, in what repository. Be it your own, or some other repo set up
for the SIG.

This is my view, how I as a user view this issue.


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