You don''t necessarily need any more partitions than what you need to
install the original Linux installation. You can install all other OS''s
in files residing on the Dom0 file-system. But if you want to, you can
give an entire disk or partition to each (or some) of the Guest-OS''s
that you''re using. The only strict rule is that two guests can
absolutely not write to the same virtual disk-media (whether it''s a
file, partition or physical disk).
I''m pretty sure there are good reasons for doing it one way or another,
but I''m not sure exactly which criterias there are for choosing one
over
another (except that with it''s own disk, that guest-OS will not suffer
from some other guest-OS doing disk-accesses at another part of the
disk, which causes the read/write head of the disk to be "at the wrong
place". However, that''s only important if you have A LOT of disk
accesses from the guest OS).
--
Mats
________________________________
From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Alessandro
Miceli
Sent: 27 October 2006 09:09
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] partitions on XEN
Hello,
Quick question,
If I want to create several VMs, do I need several partitions,
or just one extra to the OS?
Thanks
Ale
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