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Hi all. I'm using libvirt 1.2.6 I want to use lvm storage for my virtual machines. But i want to use new lvm2 feature - thin pool. How can i do that in libvirt? If libvirt can't create it via pool xml, does (and how) to use this setup under libvirt? -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru jabber: vase@selfip.ru

...s as seen from the 'lvs' utility which spits out the following for example: # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert home fedora -wi-ao---- 136.72g root fedora -wi-ao---- 50.00g swap fedora -wi-ao---- 7.64g lv_test lv_pool swi-a-s--- 4.00m [lv_test_vorigin] 50.39 or for a filled and now inactive volume: # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert home fedora -wi-ao---- 136.72g root fedora -wi-ao---- 50.00g swap fedora -wi-ao...

...fs zvols. # first test is a file test at the root of the zpool vg_satabeast8_vol0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/vg_satabeast8_vol0/testing bs=1M count=32768 32768+0 records in 32768+0 records out 34359738368 bytes (34 GB) copied, 285.037 s, 121 MB/s # create zvol zfs create -V 100G -b 4k vg_satabeast8_vol0/lv_test # test zvol with ''dsk'' device > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zvol/dsk/vg_satabeast8_vol0/lv_test bs=1M count=32768 32768+0 records in 32768+0 records out 34359738368 bytes (34 GB) copied, 981.219 s, 35.0 MB/s # test zvol with ''rdsk'' device (results are better tha...

Thank you for the quick response. > Strange way to do this, as libguestfs can do all this. Sorry to ask this (I'm a newly graduated engineer and I new to the virtualization world), but how can libguestfs do all of the above?, do you mean it can create all the partitions inside a new lvm volume or a new raw image?? > Did you copy the syslinux.cfg file into the guest? The error message