Re: [libvirt] Questions on libvirt storage internals

On 06/30/2011 04:23 AM, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: > Hi All > > I am working on integrating GlusterFS with OpenStack so that VM volumes > can be placed on shared GlusterFS volumes. I would highly appreciate if > you please help me find the answers to some questions: > > 1. Whats the difference between a storage driver and a storage backend > driver? A storage driver implements the callbacks used by the public API, as called from src/libvirt.c. Most hypervisors can use the generic storage driver in src/storage/, but some use their own (such as src/esx/esx_storage_driver.c). A storage backend driver implements additional callbacks, so that the generic storage driver can target several types of storage devices. It sounds like your work on GlusterFS would be a storage callback driver, and that all hypervisors that defer to the generic storage driver (such as qemu and lxc) will then automatically know how to do operations on images stored in GlusterFS.