Re: [libvirt-users] Using the host's LVM to manage virtual disks

2010-04-26 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Don Morrison @ 04/26/2010 06:21 AM: > I've been able to do this both ways with libvirt/kvm. You have to define > your logical volume as a block device. the logical volume shows up as a hard drive during the installation of the VM. the issue i am h

Re: [libvirt-users] Using the host's LVM to manage virtual disks

2010-04-26 Thread Don Morrison
I've been able to do this both ways with libvirt/kvm. You have to define your logical volume as a block device. I the example below (I use virsh to create the VM), I created logical volume "my_lv" in volume group "host" and was able to both install an OS into it and copy (via dd) a raw image into i

[libvirt-users] Using the host's LVM to manage virtual disks

2010-04-23 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i am envisioning a scenario that a fellow sysadmin is employing using xen, where the host is configured with LVM. basically, one volume group spans the physical disk. then, various logical volumes are created for the host and (Linux) guest OSes. t