Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu

2012-07-29 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Deepak, I know that I am not relating to your main issue (sorry...), but... I like the idea of a hook mangling qemu:commandline. Could you (or someone else) contribute such a hook to upstream vdsm? I'm sure many would thank a hook accepting general qemu command line as custom property, and pass

Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu

2012-07-29 Thread Itamar Heim
On 07/16/2012 04:07 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: I am sure VDSM hook is not the ideal way to add this functionality in VDSM, would request inputs from experts on this list on what would be a better way in VDSM to exploit QEMU-GlusterFS native integration ? Ideally based on the Storage Domain type

Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu

2012-07-29 Thread Deepak C Shetty
On 07/29/2012 03:47 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Deepak, I know that I am not relating to your main issue (sorry...), but... I like the idea of a hook manglingqemu:commandline. Could you (or someone else) contribute such a hook to upstream vdsm? I'm sure many would thank a hook accepting general

Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu

2012-07-16 Thread Deepak C Shetty
(top posting) Hello All, I am posting a VDSM hook example that helps exploit the QEMU-GlusterFS native integration from VDSM. Since the last time i posted on this thread, there are some changes to the GlusterFS based image/file specification for QEMU. This was done based on the

Re: [vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu

2012-07-05 Thread Deepak C Shetty
Hello All, Any updates/comments on this mail, anybody ? More comments/questions inline below 'would appreciate response which can help me here. thanx, deepak On 06/27/2012 06:44 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote: Hello, Recently there were patches posted in qemu-devel to support gluster

[vdsm] Using vdsm hook to exploit gluster backend of qemu

2012-06-27 Thread Deepak C Shetty
Hello, Recently there were patches posted in qemu-devel to support gluster as a block backend for qemu. This introduced new way of specifying drive location to qemu as ... -drive file=gluster:volumefile:image name where... volumefile is the gluster volume file name ( say gluster