xen discuss - Jun 2010 - Using a .img to store a domu...problem with virt-install

Before I begin let me preface by saying I am a beginner so please excuse any
foolishness on my part. If you follow this link
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/virtinstall ; you will
see that there is supposedly an option for virt-install (--disk) where you can
specify what you want to use as the disk for you dom0. For very specific reasons
I need to use to have this as a .img instead of the standard vmdk format. If
anyone could help with this I would greatly appreciate it!
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Richard, from the page you linked...

Configuring a raw file

--disk path=/guests/dom1/disk0.img,size=10,driver=file
Raw files are not recommended: it''s almost always better to use one of
the above methods instead. In particular, attempting to use raw files on a ZFS
filesystem will be woefully slow.


....WOEFULLY SLOW!  I would highly recommend against this unless you are hosting
the img file elsewhere (NFS) on a NON ZFS filesystem.

Tommy

On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:25 PM, richard hall wrote:
> Before I begin let me preface by saying I am a beginner so please excuse
any foolishness on my part. If you follow this link
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/virtinstall ; you will
see that there is supposedly an option for virt-install (--disk) where you can
specify what you want to use as the disk for you dom0. For very specific reasons
I need to use to have this as a .img instead of the standard vmdk format. If
anyone could help with this I would greatly appreciate it!
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I guess I forgot to specify that my version of virt-install does not have an
option --disk. Anyway I found a workaround for this using qemu-img.
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