qemu not built with GlusterFS support

[Aaron Bell]

qemu should have been built with GlusterFS support in the Havana release, but wasn't:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/153394328/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-amd64.qemu_1.5.0%2Bdfsg-3ubuntu5~cloud0_UPLOADING.txt.gz

As a result of this, a primary new feature included in Havana (native GlusterFS support in qemu via libgfapi) is broken.

[Jeffrey Zhang (jeffrey4l)]

Pls add this. I am testing the Openstack Hanava version and block by this bug.

[John Mark (johnmark)]

Probably because Ubuntu ships a very old version of GlusterFS, without libgfapi. Please participate in the online UDS session to upgrade the GlusterFS version - as well as the QEMU build.

[James Page (james-page)]

In order for this to happen, GlusterFS will also need to be promoted to Ubuntu main, which will require a main inclusion request.

Marking Wishlist for the time being.

[André Bauer (monotek)]

Created MIR report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1274247

[André Bauer (monotek)]

There is a ppa available now with qemu/glusterfs support:

https://launchpad.net/~semiosis/+archive/ubuntu-qemu-glusterfs

[André Bauer (monotek)]

Another PPA for qemu 2.0 wit gluisterfs support in trusty:

https://launchpad.net/~monotek/+archive/qemu-glusterfs

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Glusterfs has an ongoing MIR[1] which, if successful, will allow us to enable this support in qemu. We are past feature freeze for Jammy, but maybe it's still doable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6

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qemu (1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6) jammy; urgency=medium

  * debian/control[-in]: no more disable glusterfs in Ubuntu (LP: #1246924)
  * Fix diff handling on ceph that can cause data corruption (LP: #1968258)
      - d/p/u/lp-1968258-block-rbd-fix-handling-of-holes-in-.bdrv_co.patch
      - d/p/u/lp-1968258-block-rbd-workaround-for-ceph-issue-53784.patch

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:36:34 +0200