Kai, I am sorry, but I simply do not understand at the moment. I thought xvda is the method the disks are mounted into the VM - you sound like it being the format of the disk itself. Please explain. Dirk --On 8. August 2008 20:31:15 +0200 Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote: > Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:54:20 +0200: > >> What is the problem with xvda? And what is the alternative? > > Didn't we just discuss that? xvda doesn't allow you simple mounting of > the disk from the host, be it file or LV. > > Kai > > -- > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------------------------------------------------------- Dirk H. Schulz IT Systems Service Wiesenweg 12, 85567 Grafing Tel. 0 80 92/86 25 68 Fax. 0 80 92/86 25 72 -------------------------------------------------------------- Technik vom Feinsten - und das nötige Tuning