[ovirt-users] Status libgfapi support in oVirt

[Darrell Budic]

Is there an el7 build of this available too?


> On Nov 19, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "noc" <noc at nieuwland.nl>
>> To: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:36:28 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Status libgfapi support in oVirt
>> 
>> On 18-11-2014 20:57, Christopher Young wrote:
>> 
>> I'm replying to 'up' this as well as I'm most interested in this. I actually
>> thought this was implemented and working too.
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Helgenberger <
>> daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de > wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Joop,
>> 
>> thanks for raising the issue as it is one of the things I assumed are
>> already implemented and working.
>> 
>> Sadly I cannot provide any answer ...
>> 
>> On 17.11.2014 09:39, Joop wrote:
>>> I have been trying to use libgfapi glusterfs support in oVirt but can't
>>> get it to work. After talks on IRC it seems I should apply a patch
>>> ( http://gerrit.ovirt.org/33768 ) to enable libgf BUT I can't get it to
>>> work. Systems used:
>>> - hosts Centos7 or Fedora20 (so upto date qemu/libvirt/oVirt(3.5))
>>> - glusterfs-3.6.1
>>> - vdsm-4.16.0-524.gitbc618a4.el7.x86_64 (snapshot master 14-nov)
>>> - vdsm-4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el7.x86_64 (official ovirt-3.5 vdsm, seems
>>> newer than master snapshot?? )
>>> 
>>> Just adding the patch to vdsm-4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el7.x86_64 doesn't
>>> work, vdsm doesn't start anymore due to an error in virt/vm.py.
>>> 
>>> Q1: what is de exact status of libgf and oVirt.
>>> Q2: how do I test that patch?
>> 
>> I experimented a little more and found that if I create a VM in oVirt on a
>> glusterfs storage domain and start it, it won't use libgfapi, BUT if I use
>> virsh on the host where the VM runs and then add a disk the libgfapi way the
>> VM will see the disk and can use it. So the underlying infra is capable of
>> using libgf but oVirt isn't using it. Thats where the patch comes in I think
>> but I can't get it to work.
> 
> Correct. oVirt up until now didn't use libgfapi because of missing features
> (e.g. live snapshot). It seems that now all those gaps have been fixed and
> we're trying to re-enable libgfapi.
> 
> I just mentioned that I uploaded an el6 build here:
> 
> https://fsimonce.fedorapeople.org/vdsm-libgfapi/
> 
> and sources here (to rebuild on fedora):
> 
> https://fsimonce.fedorapeople.org/vdsm-libgfapi/source/
> 
> Let me know if the most of you are using fedora and I'll make a build on
> fedora as well.
> 
> Please let me know how it goes. Thanks,
> -- 
> Federico
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