Re: RBD storage pool support in libvirt

[Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>]

Hi,

On 04/16/2012 08:57 PM, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About two weeks ago I submitted my patch to the libvirt mailinglist:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-March/msg01320.html
>
> I've placed the code on github: https://github.com/wido/libvirt
>
> This storage drivers lets you managed RBD images through libvirt which
> could make it easier to manage your RBD storage pools.
>
> I'm also working on CloudStack integration for RBD (Can also be found on
> Github), that required RBD support in libvirt since CS relies on libvirt
> for managing it's storage pools.
>
> Since the patch hasn't been accepted in libvirt yet I'll keep rebasing
> the code against the master branch regularly.
>
> Josh from the Ceph team helped me to improve the code, thanks for that!
>
> I encourage everybody to test it and play around with it, since there
> probably will be some corner cases I haven't found.
>
> Example XML's can be found in "tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin"

What I forgot to add:

The "virsh vol-download|vol-upload" commands won't work, this is due 
some internal workings of libvirt: 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-February/msg00503.html

Wido

>
> Wido
>
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