[CentOS] Slightly OT: First Time KVM and LVM on Centos

Thu Jun 16 00:52:18 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Gordon Messmer wrote:
  > That's probably true.  image file backed guests are a whole lot slower
> than guests that run on partitions or logical volumes.  Logical volumes 
> are the easiest option to manage, with good performance characteristics.
> 
> Hopefully that made sense.  Ask questions if not.

Drawback is that such KVM guest is not as easy to move to another host 
if current host can not boot. Copying image and config files will be 
much faster.

Ljubomir