On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:10:55 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the > >> snapshots etc ... > > > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. > > > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. > > KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors.
I know, comment was about KVM. ZFS is on my list, but I don't want to use files for the VMs. > AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn > controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). And I found no evidence on memory taken along with the snapshot. Only disk. (unfortunately) I will start a new thread about this with the KVM mailing lists later today. > > I thought the MBR info that's possible with GPT would make it > > possible with any BIOS? Provided the /boot partition is early enough > > on the disk. > > I had no separate /boot ... just sda1 as "BIOS boot partition", > unformatted and with partition type ef02 (and sda2 as my gentoo-root). I have 8300 for my /boot. If I would have that on " / ", I would give that 8300 as type. > >>> booting works from BIOS/MBR. > >> > >> ... if your BIOS isn't crappy ;-) > > > > Try updating? :) > > Never found an update for this box. > > -> DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Elite 7300 Series MT/2AB5, BIOS 7.12 10/12/2011 > > hints welcome ;-) I use seperate components for the desktops and a " local " (30 - 40 minute drive) supplier for server hardware. I find that cheaper then using the big boys like HP or Dell. > > Also, the /boot partition needs to have the mbr-boot flag (or > > whatever it's called) enabled. > > Thanks, but I had that as well ... I will skip that stuff and try going > the UEFI-way later this day, if my customers allow ... Good luck (with your customers) -- Joost
