Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] GlusterFS support in QEMU

2012-07-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:48:07PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > # qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm --nographic -smp 4 -m 1024 -drive > file=gluster:c-qemu.vol:/F16,format=gluster > If you notice above, I am directly feeding the gluster volume file to QEMU. During my discussions with GlusterFS

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] GlusterFS support in QEMU

2012-06-19 Thread Bharata B Rao
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:36:04PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Bharata B Rao > wrote: > > 4. Creating VM image > > > > # qemu-img create -f gluster gluster:c-qemu.vol:/F16 5G > > Do you really need "-f gluster"? I realized that we don't. I was picked it up fr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] GlusterFS support in QEMU

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Bharata B Rao wrote: > 4. Creating VM image > > # qemu-img create -f gluster gluster:c-qemu.vol:/F16 5G Do you really need "-f gluster"? The format should be "raw" (default) and the protocol should be "gluster". Specifying "gluster:..." as the filename takes car

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] GlusterFS support in QEMU

2012-06-11 Thread Bharata B Rao
Hi, This set of patches enables QEMU to boot VM images from gluster volumes. This is achieved by adding gluster as a new block backend driver in QEMU. Its already possible to boot from VM images on gluster volumes using Fuse mount, but this patchset provides the ability to boot VM images from glus