On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, paolo pedaletti <[email protected]> wrote: > Ciao Толя, > >> Is there any way to assign single partition to KVM virtual machine (for >> example, i need to assign /dev/sda1 on my host as /dev/hda1 on VM) >> In XEN this assignment looks like disk=[ 'phy:/dev/lvm_dg-vol1,xvda1,w',]. > > with LVM, you can do that: > > kvm ..... -drive file=/dev/mapper/vm-root,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on ...... > > I think it should work even without LVM, for example: > kvm ..... -drive file=/dev/sda1,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on ......
the difference is that in KVM, the guest see a whole disk, not a partition. no surprise, since Xen's HVM guests have the same limitation; only paravirtualized guests can be assigned individual partitions. remember that KVM is a 'fully virtualized' system, similar to HVM in Xen. -- Javier
