Thanks Mark,
Your understanding is correct.
I want to create an HVM guest domain whose root should be a directory at NAS
location.
What i think for this is use a local disk partition for booting purpose (
grub and /boot ) but root partition i want on NAS directory. This is just a
testing configuration that i want to try.
If it is possible then it would be great if you can provide the key details
or links. I welcome any alternate way if any.
Thanks,
-Trilok
On 7/31/07, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:>
> > Is it possible to create an HVM domain on NAS location. Did anybody
> tried
> > this on RHEL5 ?
> >
> > I create a HVM domain using a file disk "using dd with ext3 on
> this", but
> > what i want is to rooted the OS / on the NAS location directly and it
> shoud
> > be booted from that location.
>
> Do you mean you want the NAS directory structure to be the directory
> structure
> of the domain''s /? I guess you could use NFS root in the guest,
though
> this
> of course isn''t transparent (and I''ve occasionally heard
some bad noises
> about Linux''s NFS root support).
>
> It''s easier if you can get a block level interface to your NAS and
then
> just
> have that *be* the guest''s virtual disk. Can you do that?
>
> We could do with a bit more information about what you''re trying
to do and
> why, so that we can give you better advice.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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