[CentOS] Vitualization and Partitioning

ken gebser at mousecar.com
Mon Sep 12 04:35:53 UTC 2011


On 09/11/2011 11:10 PM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> When I do the install, do I or should I setup a separate partition for guest
> That would be better from a performance point of view
> 
>> OS's? From the redhat docs, it looks like the guest OS's reside at
>> /var/lib/libvirt/images/.
> This should be using files as disk files, which I did and found it to
> be a problem when there is heavy I/O.

I like LVM (for the reasons you cite).  Would you (anyone?) say it's 
best to have one LV per guest or one LV for all guests?


tnx.

> ....




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