Re: glusterfs and qemu/kvm

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:43:48AM -0400, Jason Wittlin-Cohen wrote:
> The last post on the bug report indicates that this issue has been fixed.
> The changelog for the fixed version states:
> 
>* enable glusterfs support (glusterfs-common), in qemu-block-extra
> 
> Stretch and newer contain qemu-block-extra, and it depends on 
> glusterfs-common.

Ah, I missed that.  I didn't go through the details of the final message
because the "wontfix" tag is still there, so I assumed it still applied.

However, even after installing qemu-block-extra and restarting libvirtd,
it's still a no-go:

~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-block-extra

~$ sudo systemctl restart libvirtd
~$ cat gluster.xml 

  gluster-test
  
palantir


  

~$ virsh pool-define gluster.xml 
error: Failed to define pool from gluster.xml
error: internal error: missing backend for pool type 10 (gluster)

This is on a fully up-to-date stretch install (qemu 1:2.8+dfsg-6, libvirt 
3.0.0-4, gluster 3.8.8-1).

-- 
Dave Sherohman

Re: glusterfs and qemu/kvm

[Jason Wittlin-Cohen]

The last post on the bug report indicates that this issue has been fixed.
The changelog for the fixed version states:

   * enable glusterfs support (glusterfs-common), in qemu-block-extra

Stretch and newer contain qemu-block-extra, and it depends on glusterfs-common.


On Jul 6, 2017 8:10 AM, "Dave Sherohman"  wrote:

I'm currently running a number of virtual hosts under qemu/kvm backed by
iscsi storage and would like to move the storage onto glusterfs.
Unfortunately, Debian's qemu does not come with gluster support.  When
searching for information on this, I came across this bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775431

It was tagged wontfix in Oct 2015 and closed Dec 2016.  The basic reason
for the wontfix is that gluster is packaged in a way which makes it
infeasible to provide gluster support in the core qemu package, or even
to create a qemu-glusterfs package, and this in turn is because upstream
does things in a way which would make it difficult to maintain a stable
glusterfs-dev package.

Has this situation changed at all since then?  Assuming it hasn't, is
there a recommended procedure for replacing the standard Debian qemu
with a version which adds gluster support?

--
Dave Sherohman

glusterfs and qemu/kvm

[Dave Sherohman]

I'm currently running a number of virtual hosts under qemu/kvm backed by
iscsi storage and would like to move the storage onto glusterfs.
Unfortunately, Debian's qemu does not come with gluster support.  When
searching for information on this, I came across this bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775431

It was tagged wontfix in Oct 2015 and closed Dec 2016.  The basic reason
for the wontfix is that gluster is packaged in a way which makes it
infeasible to provide gluster support in the core qemu package, or even
to create a qemu-glusterfs package, and this in turn is because upstream
does things in a way which would make it difficult to maintain a stable
glusterfs-dev package.

Has this situation changed at all since then?  Assuming it hasn't, is
there a recommended procedure for replacing the standard Debian qemu
with a version which adds gluster support?

-- 
Dave Sherohman