integrating sheepdog into fedora

[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
> virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
>

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