[Sheepdog] Libvirt sheepdog hosts not failing over

[Dan Mihai Dumitriu]

Hi Simon,

I don't believe that there is automatic connection failover support in
the Sheepdog client library.  That sounds like an important feature to
add.

Cheers,
Dan


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Haven <haven at thehavennet.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a simple two node test setup running using libvirt. I've followed the
> notes as seen in:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-November/msg01137.html
>
> My libvirt xml is setup as:
>>
>> <disk type='network' device='disk'>
>> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
>> <source protocol='sheepdog' name='Alice'>
>> <host name='192.168.1.65' port='7000'/>
>> <host name='192.168.1.14' port='7000'/>
>> </source>
>> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04'
>> function='0x0'/>
>> </disk>
>
> When I shutdown host 192.168.1.65 the virtual hangs rather than failing over
> to 192.168.1.14.
>
> Is this supposed to work yet or still a work in progress ?
>
> The only alternative I can see is to look at a common ip gateway with
> Pacemaker and IPAddr2, I'm hoping this will eventually work as there is a
> lot less overhead.
>
> Many thanks and thanks for the libvirt support :)
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
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