Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2] storage backend: Add sheepdog support

This patch brings support to manage sheepdog pools and volumes to libvirt. It uses the "collie" command-line utility that comes with sheepdog for that. A sheepdog pool in libvirt maps to a sheepdog cluster. It needs a host and port to connect to, which in most cases is just going to be the default of localhost on port 7000. A sheepdog volume in libvirt maps to a sheepdog vdi. To create one specify the pool, a name and the capacity. Volumes can also be resized later. In the volume XML the vdi name is prefixed with "sheepdog:" and put into the <target><path>. To use the volume as a disk source for virtual machines specify the vdi name as "name" attribute of the <source>. The host and port information from the pool are specified inside the host tag. <disk type='network'> ... <source protocol="sheepdog" name="vdi_name"> <host name="localhost" port="7000"/> </source> </disk> To work right this patch parses the output of collie, so it relies on the raw output option. There recently was a bug which caused size information to be reported wrong. This is fixed upstream already and will be in the next release.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi(a)frubar.net&gt;

@@ -565,5 +568,64 @@ The RBD pool does not use the volume format type element. </p> + <h2><a name="StorageBackendSheepdog">Sheepdog pools</a></h2> + <p> + This provides a pool based on a Sheepdog Cluster. + Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for QEMU/KVM. + It provides highly available block level storage volumes that + can be attached to QEMU/KVM virtual machines. + + The cluster must already be formated.

+ + <h3>Example disk attachement</h3>

+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_sheepdog.c @@ -0,0 +1,311 @@ +/* + * storage_backend_sheepdog.c: storage backend for Sheepdog handling + * + * Copyright (C) 2012 Wido den Hollander + * Copyright (C) 2012 Frank Spijkerman + * Copyright (C) 2012 Sebastian Wiedenroth + * + * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public + * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + * + * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU + * Lesser General Public License for more details. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public + * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software + * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

+ +void virStorageBackendSheepdogAddHostArg(virCommandPtr cmd, virStoragePoolObjPtr pool)

+static int +virStorageBackendSheepdogRefreshPool(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, + virStoragePoolObjPtr pool) +{ + int ret; + char *output = NULL; + virCommandPtr cmd; + + cmd = virCommandNew(COLLIE); + virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "node", "info", "-r", NULL);

+ +static int +virStorageBackendSheepdogDeleteVol(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, + virStoragePoolObjPtr pool, + virStorageVolDefPtr vol, + unsigned int flags)