Peter Machell wrote: snip
As I thought, nothing but VMWare allows for snapshots on the fly. However, tonight I'm learning about LVM which will allow me to snapshot the whole partition on the fly very quickly, so I'll continue to use Xen and virtualbox and get some comparisons on speed.
Peter
I also was caught without networking on Xen with a previous build. bridge-utils is good. :-)
I'd be interested to get your final impressions of VBox versus Xen. It seems like the new virtualisation technologies are superior in performance to VMWare but not as mature and will take a little while to catch up.
Sid's been updated to 2.6.21 so I would be also interested to hear of anyone's experience with KVM.
I now have a bit more of a handle on LVM2 and agree it's probably the way to go. You can enlarge your disc space with your machine powered down. NTFS won't see this and if it's a boot volume you cannot use MS diskpart to increase it. You can add virtual partitions in the freed space however. If you really want to enlarge your system (C:\) drive you can use GParted's ntfsprogs. Windows XP complains bitterly and requires a few reboots but gets there in the end. (At least you can do experiment with confidence on a clone machine-).
LVM needs hardware or software RAID (or both :-) . Cheers. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
