integrating sheepdog into fedora

[Steven Dake]

Hi,

I've been working with the upstream sheepdog[1] community to get the 
userland component of sheepdog into shape for distribution.  Soon the 
userland rpm will be ready for review.

The userland depends on upstream QEMU 0.13 to add a block storage 
device.  Curious to know if there are plans to integrate this version of 
QEMU into a future fedora version or if we could carry a patch on top of 
current fedora qemu which integrates the functionality.

Regards
-steve

[1] sheepdog is a distributed block storage system for QEMU.  For more 
details, check out the KVM Forum slides.

http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/pub/kvmforum2010.pdf

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:58:04PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working with the upstream sheepdog[1] community to get the 
> userland component of sheepdog into shape for distribution.  Soon the 
> userland rpm will be ready for review.
>
> The userland depends on upstream QEMU 0.13 to add a block storage 
> device.  Curious to know if there are plans to integrate this version of 
> QEMU into a future fedora version or if we could carry a patch on top of 
> current fedora qemu which integrates the functionality.

Fedora rawhide always tracks the latest upstream QEMU release, so when
0.13 is finally released, we'll pull it in. I'm not sure it'll make 
it for F14 though. FYI there is a Fedora Virtualization mailing list
which is probably a better place for QEMU / virt platform questions
[e-mail]

The other todo item is to figure out how to configure this from libvirt
so it can actually be used by Fedora virt management tools. The KVM 
forum presentation suggested the Sheepdog maintainers had this as a
todo item already.

Regards,
Daniel

[Steven Dake]

On 08/24/2010 02:35 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:58:04PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been working with the upstream sheepdog[1] community to get the
> > userland component of sheepdog into shape for distribution.  Soon the
> > userland rpm will be ready for review.
> >
> > The userland depends on upstream QEMU 0.13 to add a block storage
> > device.  Curious to know if there are plans to integrate this version of
> > QEMU into a future fedora version or if we could carry a patch on top of
> > current fedora qemu which integrates the functionality.
>
> Fedora rawhide always tracks the latest upstream QEMU release, so when
> 0.13 is finally released, we'll pull it in. I'm not sure it'll make
> it for F14 though. FYI there is a Fedora Virtualization mailing list
> which is probably a better place for QEMU / virt platform questions
> [e-mail]

thanks for the pointer on the list.

Was targeting f15 since f14 is in alpha.
> The other todo item is to figure out how to configure this from libvirt
> so it can actually be used by Fedora virt management tools. The KVM
> forum presentation suggested the Sheepdog maintainers had this as a
> todo item already.

Do you know of anyone on virt working on this?

Regards
-steve
> Regards,
> Daniel

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:22:56AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> On 08/24/2010 02:35 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:58:04PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been working with the upstream sheepdog[1] community to get the
> > > userland component of sheepdog into shape for distribution.  Soon the
> > > userland rpm will be ready for review.
> > >
> > > The userland depends on upstream QEMU 0.13 to add a block storage
> > > device.  Curious to know if there are plans to integrate this version of
> > > QEMU into a future fedora version or if we could carry a patch on top of
> > > current fedora qemu which integrates the functionality.
> >
> > Fedora rawhide always tracks the latest upstream QEMU release, so when
> > 0.13 is finally released, we'll pull it in. I'm not sure it'll make
> > it for F14 though. FYI there is a Fedora Virtualization mailing list
> > which is probably a better place for QEMU / virt platform questions
> > [e-mail]
>
> thanks for the pointer on the list.
>
> Was targeting f15 since f14 is in alpha.
> > The other todo item is to figure out how to configure this from libvirt
> > so it can actually be used by Fedora virt management tools. The KVM
> > forum presentation suggested the Sheepdog maintainers had this as a
> > todo item already.
>
> Do you know of anyone on virt working on this?

Not aware of anyone apart from the Sheepdog guys themselves.

Daniel