[ovirt-users] 3rd party qemu/libvirt rpms and ovirt

[Tiemen Ruiten]

On 07/08/14 15:24, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 02:04 PM, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:
>> Well yes, I thought of that. But my reasoning was that if I only upgrade
>> these specific packages, there is less difference and less potential for
>> issues. On the other hand, CentOS 7 is mostly based on Fedora 19, so it
>> could work...guess I can only find out by trying.
>>
>> On 07/08/14 12:03, Sven Kieske wrote:
>>> Well if you are desperate enough to try
>>> such an unknown third party repo
>>> you might as well try the freshly released
>>> centos7?
>>>
>>> Am 08.07.2014 11:54, schrieb Tiemen Ruiten:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to setup a new oVirt environment based on F19 hosts, but
>>>> I'm
>>>> running into so many issues, that I'm thinking of switching 'back' to
>>>> CentOS. However I would lose the advanced features (libgfapi, live
>>>> snapshots etc.) that are enabled in the F19 libvirt/qemu/kvm packages.
>>>> So after some googling a came across Alexandar Evseev's repository
>>>> with
>>>> all the newest virtualization rpms packaged for CentOS 6:
>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/aevseev/CentOS6/x86_64/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, I can't find any information at all about the status of these
>>>> packages or any indication about stability. Is anyone familiar with
>>>> this
>>>> repository and would it be possible to use these packages in an oVirt
>>>> environment?
>>>>
>>
>>
>
> libgfapi is not enabled in vdsm until libvirt has proper support for
> snapshots.
> for the other 'advanved features', you can use the .el6 rpm built in
> jenkins.ovirt.org
All right, that's useful information. Maybe I didn't get my terminology
right: I want to host my VM-images on a GlusterFS volume, on a separate
storage cluster. Will it be possible to create a GlusterFS storage
domain on a CentOS cluster that utilizes that? Or should I use the posix
storage domain and specify glusterfs as a type? Is there any difference
in performance, since libgfapi isn't enabled anyway?

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Tiemen Ruiten
Systems Engineer
R&D Media