Niels de Vos 14689d7810 Gluster should store volumes in qcow2 format
By default all network disks are in RAW format. Gluster works fine with
QCOW2 which has some advantages.

Disks are by default in QCOW2 format. It is possible to run into
a mismatch, where the disk is in QCOW2 format, but QEMU gets started
with format=raw. This causes the virtual machines to lockup on boot.

Failures to start a virtual machine can be verified by checking the log
of the virtual machine, and compare the output of 'qemu-img info'.

In /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<VM>.log find the URL for the drive:

    -drive file=gluster+tcp://...,format=raw,..

Compare this with the 'qemu-img info' output of the same file, mounted
under /mnt/<pool-uuid>/<img-uuid>:

    # qemu-img info /mnt/<pool-uuid>/<img-uuid>
    ...
    file format: qcow2
    ...

This change makes passes the format when creating a disk located on RBD
(RAW only) and Gluster (QCOW2).

Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
2014-02-25 12:08:46 +01:00
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