[CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala zen at allegro.pl
Mon Dec 10 14:12:25 UTC 2007


Monday 10 December 2007 04:50:04 Amos Shapira napisał(a):
> Hello,
>
> When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or
> less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the
> advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup the Xen guest
> directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM
> partition as an entire disk with a partition table.
>
> The advantages of this approach are:
> 1. I can add more LVM's later, or share LVM's at the host level among
> multiple Xen guests.
> 2. I can easily grow/shrink the Xen guest's disks.
> 3. I can access the Xen guest's filesystem much more easily
> 5. Probably less overhead in having LVM->parition->LVM.
>
> But I didn't find a way to achieve this with CentOS 5's automatic
> tools. Is this supported by CentOS as a Xen host or do I have to find
> my own way?

As far as I know it's not supported with standard CentOS tools. 

pz
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Tomasz Napierala
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