I'm pasting this in here piecemeal, due to a misconfiguration of the list.
 I'm posting this back to the original thread in the hopes of the
conversation being continued.  I apologize in advance for the poor
formatting below.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Schlacta, Christ <aarc...@aarcane.org>wrote:

> Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to forward the entire discussion to
> the list, unless you object. I'll do it when I get home
> On Jan 27, 2014 12:38 PM, "Gaudenz Steinlin" <gaud...@debian.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> "Schlacta, Christ" <aarc...@aarcane.org> writes:
>>
>> > So what about getting a ceph enabled qemu (and recently discovered:
>> > libvirt) added to the ceph extras repository?
>>
>> Don't know. I'm in now way involved with the repositories on ceph.com.
>> BTW you only sent your mail to me privately and not to the lists.
>>
>> Gaudenz
>>
>> > On Jan 27, 2014 2:13 AM, "Gaudenz Steinlin" <gaud...@debian.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sage Weil <s...@inktank.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
>> >> >> So on Debian wheezy, qemu is built without ceph/rbd support. I don't
>> >> know
>> >> >> about everyone else, but I use backported qemu. Does anyone provide
>> a
>> >> >> trusted, or official, build of qemu from Debian backports that
>> supports
>> >> >> ceph/rbd?
>> >> >
>> >> > Not that I know of.
>> >> >
>> >> > CCing the Debian maintainers; it would be nice to get this enabled
>> in the
>> >> > Debian packaging.
>> >>
>> >> RBD support is currently disabled in qemu in Debian. There is a bug
>> >> report (#729961)[1] asking for it to be enabled. Once this is done and
>> a
>> >> ceph
>> >> backports is also available in Debian backports, a qemu backport with
>> >> rbd enabled can be done. As qemu is regularly backported I would expect
>> >> this to happen pretty soon after the preconditions are met.
>> >>
>> >> The major blocker at the moment is that the version of ceph in Debian
>> >> testing is still 0.48-2. The main reason for this is that ceph is part
>> >> of several library transitions going on at the moment.
>> >>
>> >> A recent ceph version needs to go into testing first as a precondition
>> >> for an official backport (to avoid upgrade issues when the next stable
>> >> version of Debian is released). And this is apparently also a
>> >> precondition for the qemu maintainers to enable rbd support.
>> >>
>> >> Gaudenz
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729961
>> >> >
>> >> > sage
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>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
>> >> Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
>> >> ~ Samuel Beckett ~
>> >>
>>
>> --
>> Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
>> Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
>> ~ Samuel Beckett ~
>>
>
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