Gluster users - Sep 2010 - Failed on booting qcow2 image files on glusterfs

Hi, All
  I have 4 nodes in a glusterfs. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as
3 and 4 (replication2) replicate each other, and replication1 and
replication2 is distribued with cluster/distribute.
   I failed on booting qcow2 image files on this glusterfs volume by
KVM. The issue will disappear if I move the qcow2 file to the outside of
the glusterfs volume.
   How to reproduce the issue:
      1. Create a qcow2 image file by "qemu-img" command like below
and
add the image file to config file of a guest os.
            qemu-img  create -f qcow2 test-qcow2.img 20G
      2. Boot the guest os and will get a error message like below.
          "qemu: could not open disk image /path/test-qcow2.img"

All 4 nodes are CentOS 5 instances connected over GbE.
My configs are below.  Any ideas will be appreciated.

Server:
----------------------------
volume posix
  type storage/posix
  option directory /path/export
end-volume

volume locks
  type features/locks
  subvolumes posix
end-volume

volume brick
  type performance/io-threads
  option thread-count 32
  subvolumes locks
end-volume

volume server
  type protocol/server
  option transport-type tcp
  option transport.socket.bind-address 192.168.0.5
  option auth.addr.brick.allow 192.168.*.*
  subvolumes brick
end-volume
-----------------

Client:
-----------------
volume remote1
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp
  option remote-host remote1.host
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume remote2
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp
  option remote-host remote2.host
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume remote3
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp
  option remote-host remote3.host
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume remote4
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp
  option remote-host remote4.host
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume replicate1
  type cluster/replicate
  subvolumes remote1 remote2
end-volume

volume replicate2
  type cluster/replicate
  subvolumes remote3 remote4
end-volume

volume distribute
  type cluster/distribute
  subvolumes replicate1 replicate2
end-volume

volume writebehind
  type performance/write-behind
  option cache-size 1MB
  subvolumes distribute
end-volume

volume cache
  type performance/io-cache
  option cache-size 512MB
  subvolumes writebehind
end-volume
------------------------

-Sheng

Hi ,

I have the same issue. Is there any solution?

I have Scientific Linux 6 with glusterfs 3.2.0  and can't install a 
virtual Machine into a qcow2-Image file created on the gluster filesystem.


Regards

Christoph



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