On 11/18/2014 06:50 PM, Richard Taubo wrote:
On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Cole Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

On 11/18/2014 06:26 PM, Richard Taubo wrote:
Hi!

I have created a guest disk like this:
a) lvcreate -L 30G -n Vm1 VolGroup
b) mkfs.xfs /dev/VolGroup/Vm1

And installed the VM like this:
c) virt-install --name=vm1.mydomain.com \
        --disk path=/dev/VolGroup/Vm1 \
        … rest_of_arguments

Questions:
1)      Is b) above necessary, or are a) and c) sufficient?

2)      If b) is necessary, should /dev/VolGroup/Vm1 be mounted while 
installing and
        while running the VM?


If you're passing OS install media to virt-install, the b) is not required: the 
os installer will format the disk, same as it would on a physical machine.

Thanks!

1) So no mounting on host then?

No, shouldn't be required.

2) Is it possible to take a LVM snapshot of the guest from the host (and make a 
backup)?


Yes, but you'll want to make sure the guest is shutoff and not writing to the LV. I'm not too familiar with LVM snapshots though

- Cole

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