[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Bug#607679: ganeti2: new version available

[Holger Fischer]

Package: ganeti2
Version: 2.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Have created deb of newest version from ganeti2 (ganeti-2.3.0.tar.gz)

- renamed ganeti-2.3.0.tar.gz to ganeti_2.3.0.orig.tar.gz
- unpacked it and copied debian dir from 2.2.1-1 sources into it
- dch -i
- added some changes to make it buildable on lenny
  quilt-1-downgrade taken from sources in backports.org
  do you mind downgrading quilt deps to version 1 for squeeze packages too, so it will stay buildable on lenny without changes in future. The changes are very minor.

Attached the diff.gz that applies against renamed ganeti-2.3.0.tar.gz

Want to use this package for creating a stable ganeti cluster.

Lots of backported packages to lenny:
ii  drbd8-utils                                       2:8.3.7-2.1~hbpo01              RAID 1 over tcp/ip for Linux utilities
ii  fai-client                                        3.4.4~hbpo01                    Fully Automatic Installation client package
ii  firmware-linux-free                               2.6.32-29~hbpo01                Binary firmware for various drivers in the L
ii  ganeti-instance-debootstrap                       0.9-3~hbpo01                    debootstrap-based instance OS definition for
ii  ganeti2                                           2.3.0-1~hbpo01                  Cluster-based virtualization management soft
ii  initramfs-tools                                   0.93.4-grml02~hbpo02            tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libxenstore3.0                                    3.4.3-10.42.201008172205~hbpo04 Xenstore communications library for Xen
ii  linux-base                                        2.6.32-29~hbpo01                Linux image base package
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64                        2.6.32-29~hbpo01                Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64                    2.6.32-29~hbpo01                Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs, Xen dom0 suppor
ii  linux-kbuild-2.6.32                               2.6.32-1~hbpo01                 Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.32
ii  linux-libc-dev                                    2.6.32-29~hbpo01                Linux support headers for userspace developm
ii  open-iscsi                                        2.0.871.3-2~hbpo01              High performance, transport independent iSCS
ii  qemu                                              0.12.5+dfsg-2~hbpo02            fast processor emulator
ii  qemu-keymaps                                      0.12.5+dfsg-2~hbpo02            QEMU keyboard maps
ii  qemu-system                                       0.12.5+dfsg-2~hbpo02            QEMU full system emulation binaries
ii  qemu-user                                         0.12.5+dfsg-2~hbpo02            QEMU user mode emulation binaries
ii  qemu-utils                                        0.12.5+dfsg-2~hbpo02            QEMU utilities
ii  seabios                                           0.5.1-3~hbpo01                  Legacy BIOS implementation
ii  vgabios                                           0.6c-2~hbpo01                   VGA BIOS software for the Bochs and Qemu emu
ii  xen-3.4                                           3.4.3-10.42.201008172205~hbpo04 Xen Hypervisor
ii  xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64               2.6.32-29~hbpo01                Xen system with Linux 2.6.32 on 64-bit PCs (

ii  ganeti-instance-image                             0.4-1+gitaf758a63               image based instance OS defintion for ganeti


I'm looking for a stable ganeti version. Have seen in changelog, that it solves some problems with master failover .......


Would you mind taking another stable version of ganeti2?

Also I want to use the ganeti-instance-image with freshly introduced NOMOUNT option for importing an existing opensolaris-xen-pv (pygrub/zfs).
Also I want to deploy debian machines with FAI/PXEboot (pypxeboot on xen pv) like I usually do at the moment and later import the machines into ganeti with ganeti-instance-image and NOMOUNT.

Are there any better strategies for doing it?

Is it possibly to assign file image based disks (system) and luks-disk-devices (/dev/mapper/crypt for data) to one instance (at the same time) that runs then as a 
non HA, non migrateable, no drbd instance/machine.

Is it possible to run ganeti2 with HA-iscsi-volumes instead of drbd?
How would you create a cluster with 10 nodes based on drbd which can only handle 2 or 3 (Master/Slave/?Maintenance? or Master/Master/?Maintenance?) disks?

Thank you for your help and great work

Kind regards

Holger Fischer