[sheepdog] [Sheepdog]Openstack support sheepdog matters?

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:24:58 +0800,
harryxiyou wrote:
> >
> > Nova uses libvirt to attach sheepdog volumes to QEMU, and you can
> > create, snapshot, and clone sheepdog volumes from Cinder, IIUC.  Does
> > this answer your question?
> >
> Absolutely right, thanks very much ;-)
> Therefore, why do we have to use libvirt to attach sheepdog volumes to QEMU.
> If openstack driver only support this way? Or other reasons?

What is the better way to attach volumes to QEMU?  It seems that Nova
uses libvirt to attach iSCSI volumes too.

> But this is still the way we use libvirt to attach sheepdog volumes to QEMU.
> I wanna know if we can let Openstack support sheepdog by ISCSI way(openstack
> support sheepdog driver by some interfaces about ISCSI provided by Openstack).
> Maybe i understand ISCSI not correctly.

I don't understand what you mean by "iSCSI way".  What commands or
APIs are you using to attach iSCSI volumes?

Thanks,

Kazutaka