[libvirt-users] problem with sheepdog backend when creating a pool

[Osier Yang]

On 18/09/13 23:03, Giovanni Bellac wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am getting a error, when creating a sheepdog pool via libvirt. 
> libvirt is compiled as:
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/libvirt --without-xen --with-yajl 
> --with-storage-sheepdog=/opt/sheepdog

The options "--with-somthing" generally accept 3 values: yes, no, or check.

>
> Sheepdog is functional, when creating manually a vdi via "qemu-img" 
> and than using as disk in libvirt.
>
>
> The error looks like this:
> internal error missing backend for pool type 9
>

I think you built without sheepdog with the wrong option value. Check 
config.log
will let you know whether sheepdog is included in the building.

Regards,
Osier