integrating sheepdog into fedora

[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
> >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?

Not aware of anyone apart from the Sheepdog guys themselves.

Daniel
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