Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] HLFS driver for QEMU

[harryxiyou]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:43:17PM +0800, harryxiyou wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > I looked at the Google Code project before, it looks like a repo that
>> > a few people are hacking on.  The site is developer-focussed and there
>> > is no evidence of users.  This is why I asked about the background of
>> > the community.
>> >
>>
>> Cloudxy is developing and we will popularize it.
>
> Most important for QEMU is easy building and testing, so let's focus on
> that.

Yup, this is wonderful ;-)

>
> Ceph and GlusterFS have packages available in popular distros.  This
> allows us to hook them into QEMU's buildbot
> (http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/grid) so their code does not bitrot.

We will make debian and RPM packages.

>
> Sheepdog's QEMU block driver has no external dependencies so it's even
> easier to build.

Yup.
>
> I'd like to see packages for popular distros and a "Getting Started"
> page for users instead of developers.  Then I can follow the steps to
> set up HLFS using the packages and the QEMU buildbot can build the HLFS
> block driver.
>

Actually, we have "Get started" wiki pages in Chinese and i will give them in
English. You can visit Chinese "Get started" wiki pages by following link.
http://code.google.com/p/cloudxy/wiki/HlfsUserManual

We also have "one key install script", which is located here.
http://cloudxy.googlecode.com/svn/branches/hlfs/person/zhangdianbo/scripts/

All the wiki pages for Cloudxy are here(In Chinese).
http://code.google.com/p/cloudxy/w/list



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Thanks
Harry Wei