[ovirt-users] fileserver as a guest oVirt

[Niklas Fondberg]

Regards,
Niklas

On 12 jul 2014, at 22:49, "Niklas Fondberg" <niklas at vireone.com<mailto:niklas at vireone.com>> wrote:



On 12 jul 2014, at 16:57, "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se<mailto:Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>> wrote:


Den 12 jul 2014 15:45 skrev Niklas Fondberg <niklas at vireone.com<mailto:niklas at vireone.com>>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to oVirt but I must say I am impressed!
> I am running it on a HP DL380 with an external SAS chassi.
> Linux dist is Centos 6.5 and oVirt is 3.4 running all-in-one (for now until we need to have a second host).
>
> Our company (www.vireone.com<http://www.vireone.com>) deals with system architecture for many telco and media operators and is now setting up a small own datacenter for our internal tests as well as our IT infrastructure.
> We are in the process of installing Zentyal for the SMB purposes on a guest and it would be great to have that guest also serving a fs path directory with NFS + SMB (which is semi crippled on the host after oVirt installation with version 3 et.c.).
>
> Does anyone have an idea of how I can through oVirt (seen several solutions using virsh and kvm) letting my Zentyal Ubuntu guest have access to a host mount point or if necessary (second best) a seperate partition?
>
> Best regards
> Niklas
>

Why not just give the guest a thin provision virtual hard drive and expand it on a demand basis?

/K

Thanks for the advise but this would not suite us I'm afraid. It would be difficult wrt incremental backups as well as host machine file-routines.


I read that virtio has virtfs that can be used for pass through and host path sharing. Is it possible to set this up using a hook or something in oVirt?

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