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authorBharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-10-24 17:17:53 +0530
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2012-11-14 18:19:21 +0100
commit8809e28937b8a48ff0dfeeb93498641392f26019 (patch)
tree773b02fa86e4bbbe80c1e2a814ef81287e28d59a /qemu-options.hx
parentce34cf72fe508b27a78f83c184142e8d1e6a048a (diff)
qemu: Document GlusterFS block driver usage
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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@@ -2054,6 +2054,23 @@ qemu-system-i386 --drive file=sheepdog:192.0.2.1:30000:MyVirtualMachine
See also @url{http://http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/}.
+@item GlusterFS
+GlusterFS is an user space distributed file system.
+QEMU supports the use of GlusterFS volumes for hosting VM disk images using
+TCP, Unix Domain Sockets and RDMA transport protocols.
+
+Syntax for specifying a VM disk image on GlusterFS volume is
+@example
+gluster[+transport]://[server[:port]]/volname/image[?socket=...]
+@end example
+
+
+Example
+@example
+qemu-system-x86_84 --drive file=gluster://192.0.2.1/testvol/a.img
+@end example
+
+See also @url{http://www.gluster.org}.
@end table
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