On 02/13/2011 10:27 AM, Nataraj wrote:
Is there a simple way to directly install a vm on an lvm (or proably seperate LVM's for root and swap)? For example something like:
lvcreate -L 10G -n testvm_root vg_myvg lvcreate -L 1G -n testvm_swap
Then somehow setup the VM to be able to directly install and boot the vm from these LV's. How do I do this?
Could you then pause the virtual machine and safely take an LVM snapshot, continue the VM and then mount the snapshot on the host and do a backup?
This would be for CentOS/Redhat 6.
I am not sure that I have correctly understood your question, but I have the following setup functional in Centos 5 for several years = dedicated logical volumes,similar to your example = a xen configuration as below disk = [ 'phy:/dev/VG1/biblioteca,hda1,w','phy:/dev/VG2/disk2,hdb,w','phy:/dev/hde,hdc,w','phy:/dev/hdh,hdd,w' ] ( mind hda and hdb which are LVs created during the first step)