From 8809e28937b8a48ff0dfeeb93498641392f26019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bharata B Rao Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:17:53 +0530 Subject: qemu: Document GlusterFS block driver usage Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- qemu-options.hx | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'qemu-options.hx') diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index fe8f15c541..06aa1ae6e3 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -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 ETEXI -- cgit v1.2.3