[ovirt-users] [ANN] oVirt 4.1.5 General Availability Release is now available

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 24 Aug 2017, at 11:50, Chris Boot <bootc at bootc.net> wrote:
> 
> On 22/08/17 15:45, Lev Veyde wrote:
>> Starting 4.1.5 oVirt supports libgfapi [5]. Using libgfapi provides a
>> real performance boost for ovirt when using GlusterFS .
>> Due  to a known issue [6], using this will break live storage
>> migration.  This is expected to be fixed soon. If you do not use live
>> storage  migration you can give it a try. Use [7] for more details on
>> how to  enable it.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've tried to enable this, but can't get it working. Has anyone managed
> to do this and have pointers? The instructions on the linked page seem
> to be a mixture of truly ancient (from 2013) and modern, and it's
> difficult to figure out what one actually needs to do.
> 
> I've set "option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on" in my glusterd.vol and
> "server.allow-insecure" on the relevant volume, then restarted all my
> Gluster daemons. I did a rolling restart as I can't currently shut
> everything down and bring it all back up, but I can use 'qemu-img info
> gluster:///[...]' successfully.
> 
> I've enabled LibgfApiSupported and restarted the engine. Starting VMs
> now fails: it tries to start the VM on each host and fails with the same
> message from libvirt:
> 
> libvirtd[2822]: failed to initialize gluster connection
> (src=0x7f748801ff50 priv=0x7f74880367b0): Success
> 
> Unfortunately I can't see anything of much use in vdsm.log,
> /var/log/messages, or the Gluster logs.
> 
> I'm using oVirt 4.1.5 and GlusterFS 3.10.5 on CentOS 7.3.

aside from gluster,I’d suggest to wait for CentOS 7.4 and qemu-kvm-ev 2.9, libvirt 3.2. I would expect few relevant fixes

> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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> Chris Boot
> bootc at bootc.net
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