[Sheepdog] sheepdo in libvirt

huxinwei huxinwei at huawei.com
Thu Mar 15 04:07:27 CET 2012


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheepdog-bounces at lists.wpkg.org
> [mailto:sheepdog-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Liu Yuan
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:58 AM
> To: David Douard
> Cc: sheepdog at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [Sheepdog] sheepdo in libvirt
> 
> On 03/15/2012 02:19 AM, David Douard wrote:
> 
> >> On 03/14/2012 07:24 AM, David Douard wrote:
> >>> storage.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know a way of creating a sheepdog-based pool?
> >>>
> >>> PS: I am using libvirt 0.9.8 from debian squeeze backports for now.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >> Hi,
> >
> > Hi
> >
> >> Does README in the source help? I don't use libvirt, so sorry I don't know
> >> how to create a sheepdog storage cluster.
> >
> > Nope. It explain how to use sheepdog with qemu/kvm only (unless I miss
> > something).
> >
> > Libvirt support sheepdog for creating a domain (a virtual guest), but has no
> > storage for "network" pools (aka sheepdog, ceph and nbd). I am aware this is
> > not directly a sheepdog feature (it's a libvirt one), but as long as it's not
> > available, it makes using sheepdog in most environments much more
> difficult).
> >
> > This require some work, and I was wondering if anyone around here is
> working
> > on. I think I saw something about this missing feature for ceph volumes (as
> > soon as libvirt support one if the available network-based pools,
> implementing
> > other backends should be easy).
> >
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> AFAIK, I don't know anyone is working on libvirt on this issue. Anyone
> is interested in it is more than welcome.

BTW: Where do we maintain the TODO list for the project ?
I'm very curious about that who's working on what ;)

> Thanks,
> Yuan
> 
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