[fedora-virt] Testing Gluster 3.4.Beta

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:53:43PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 01:49 PM, Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am trying to test the VM storage in the new Gluster 3.4 Beta. I have
> > enabled the virt-preview repo on Fedora 18 x86_64. When I go to create
> > the image using 'qemu-img create gluster://f18-test1:0/vmstore/test1',
> > I get an error stating: qemu-img: Unknown protocol
> > 
> > I am guessing that the version supplied in the virt-repo does not have
> > the --enable-glusterfs flag supplied at compile time. Are the src
> > rpm's available for this repo some place so I could add the glusterfs
> > flag? Or can I file a bug some place to have that feature enabled?
> > 
> 
> F19 and rawhide qemu are built against gluster now:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=419506

Also libguestfs in F19 and Rawhide is supposed to support
disk-images-on-gluster using a syntax similar to:

  guestfish -a gluster://host/volume/disk.img [...]

However I have not been able to test this, so testing and feedback are
welcome!

Rich.

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