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  • At the end of last week, I spied an exciting tweet about oVirt: Not long after I started using oVirt and Gluster together, the projects started talking about a way to improve Gluster performance by enabling virtualization hosts to access Gluster volumes directly, using Gluster’s libgfapi, rather than through a FUSE-mounted location on the virtualization […]

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  • One of the cooler new features in oVirt 3.1 is the platform’s support for creating and managing Gluster volumes. oVirt’s web admin console now includes a graphical tool for configuring these volumes, and vdsm, the service for responsible for controlling oVirt’s virtualization nodes, has a new sibling, vdsm-gluster, for handling the back end work. Gluster and […]

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  • Update: I’ve written an updated version of this guide for oVirt 3.2. Last February or so, I wrote a post about getting up and running with oVirt, the open source virtualization management project, on a single test machine. Various things have changed since then, such as a shiny new oVirt 3.1 release, so I’m going […]

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  • NOTE: The most recent version of this howto, for oVirt 4.1, lives HERE. As a fan both of x86 virtualization and of open source software, I long wondered when the “Linux of virtualization” would emerge. Maybe I should say instead, the GNU/Linux of virtualization, because I’m talking about more than just a kernel for virtualization […]

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