[CentOS-virt] Xen/VMWare Server comparison and "best Xen practices"?

[Kris Buytaert]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 21:09 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> what's your recommendation for the filesystem "underlayer" for a Xen VM? A 
> partition, a file, a sparse file?
> 
I've been using LVM volumes for ages.   

You only have a limited amount of partitions so partitions don't scale. 



I only use files if I`m building a virtual machine that I want to give
to someone who isn't capable of kickstarting a system.


-- 
Kris Buytaert <mlkb at inuits.be>