[ovirt-users] Enabling libgfapi disk access with oVirt 4.2

Kasturi Narra knarra at redhat.com
Tue Nov 14 07:26:49 UTC 2017


yes, it  does work with 4.1.7.6 version

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Bryan Sockel <Bryan.Sockel at altn.com> wrote:

> Is libgfapi supposed to be working in 4.1.7.6?
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandro De Salvo <Alessandro.DeSalvo at roma1.infn.it>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:35:01 +0100
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Enabling libgfapi disk access with oVirt 4.2
>
> Hi again,
> OK, tried to stop all the vms, except the engine, set engine-config -s
> LibgfApiSupported=true (for 4.2 only) and restarted the engine.
> When I tried restarting the VMs they are still not using gfapi, so it does
> not seem to help.
> Cheers,
>
>     Alessandro
>
>
> Il 09/11/17 09:12, Alessandro De Salvo ha scritto:
>
>
> Hi,
> where should I enable gfapi via the UI?
> The only command I tried was engine-config -s LibgfApiSupported=true but
> the result is what is shown in my output below, so it’s set to true for
> v4.2. Is it enough?
> I’ll try restarting the engine. Is it really needed to stop all the VMs
> and restart them all? Of course this is a test setup and I can do it, but
> for production clusters in the future it may be a problem.
> Thanks,
>
>    Alessandro
>
> Il giorno 09 nov 2017, alle ore 07:23, Kasturi Narra <knarra at redhat.com>
> ha scritto:
>
>
> Hi ,
>
>     The procedure to enable gfapi is below.
>
> 1) stop all the vms running
> 2) Enable gfapi via UI or using engine-config command
> 3) Restart ovirt-engine service
> 4) start the vms.
>
> Hope you have not missed any !!
>
> Thanks
> kasturi
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Alessandro De Salvo <
> Alessandro.DeSalvo at roma1.infn.it> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the latest 4.2 beta release and want to try the gfapi access,
>> but I'm currently failing to use it.
>>
>> My test setup has an external glusterfs cluster v3.12, not managed by
>> oVirt.
>>
>> The compatibility flag is correctly showing gfapi should be enabled with
>> 4.2:
>>
>> # engine-config -g LibgfApiSupported
>> LibgfApiSupported: false version: 3.6
>> LibgfApiSupported: false version: 4.0
>> LibgfApiSupported: false version: 4.1
>> LibgfApiSupported: true version: 4.2
>>
>> The data center and cluster have the 4.2 compatibility flags as well.
>>
>> However, when starting a VM with a disk on gluster I can still see the
>> disk is mounted via fuse.
>>
>> Any clue of what I'm still missing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>    Alessandro
>>
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