On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:22:56AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
On 08/24/2010 02:35 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:58:04PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been working with the upstream sheepdog[1] community to get the
>>userland component of sheepdog into shape for distribution. Soon the
>>userland rpm will be ready for review.
>>
>>The userland depends on upstream QEMU 0.13 to add a block storage
>>device. Curious to know if there are plans to integrate this version of
>>QEMU into a future fedora version or if we could carry a patch on top of
>>current fedora qemu which integrates the functionality.
>
>Fedora rawhide always tracks the latest upstream QEMU release, so when
>0.13 is finally released, we'll pull it in. I'm not sure it'll make
>it for F14 though. FYI there is a Fedora Virtualization mailing list
>which is probably a better place for QEMU / virt platform questions
>virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>
thanks for the pointer on the list.
Was targeting f15 since f14 is in alpha.
>The other todo item is to figure out how to configure this from libvirt
>so it can actually be used by Fedora virt management tools. The KVM
>forum presentation suggested the Sheepdog maintainers had this as a
>todo item already.
>
Do you know of anyone on virt working on this?
Not aware of anyone apart from the Sheepdog guys themselves.
Daniel
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