Qemu driver using gluster:// for accessing VM image

alishir1 · July 11, 2021, 6:08am

Hi,
Is it possible to specify gluster:// in image_path for accessing VM image over glusterfs instead of downloading the image as a local file?

lgfa29 · July 21, 2021, 12:17am

Hi @alishir1

I don’t think so. You could use a host volume that mounts your gluster directory in the client, then the job can mount this volume and read the image.

Would this work for you?

alishir1 · July 21, 2021, 2:06am

Thanks a lot @lgfa29 , according to some documentation accessing glusfterfs via libgfapi have better performance than accessing via the mount point.

lgfa29 · July 21, 2021, 3:02pm

I don’t know a whole lot about gluster, but maybe you could mount the volume in the client machine using libgfapi and then use Nomad’s host volume to access it from the allocation.