List,
My domU installs are stored in LVM. So when I setup an XM config I will pass a
single disk
disk = ["phy:/dev/virtvm/ubsvr91,hda,w" ]
here the Ubuntu installer will take my disk and choose a layout to install
Server 9.10, which is LVM based.
Once the install is finished, I find it quite complicated to drill through the
layout with fdisk, pvs, vgdisplay, lvdisplay, and losetup/kpartx to see all the
details of the install.
Besides using commercial tools, what can be done to simplify this? Hacking the
layout is vital for doing backups, restores, or resizing.
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Mark
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Fajar A. Nugraha
2010-Mar-18 03:30 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Any tool which shows the layout of LVM based domU
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Mr. X <tlviewer@yahoo.com> wrote:> here the Ubuntu installer will take my disk and choose a layout to install Server 9.10, which is LVM based.> Besides using commercial tools, what can be done to simplify this? Hacking the layout is vital for doing backups, restores, or resizing.... and that is exactly why I use block devices directly without partition/LVM on domU side. Something like disk = ["phy:/dev/virtvm/ubsvr91root,hda1,w" ] If you use LVM on domU, then the easiest backup method would be from within domU itself. Treat it like any other physical machine. And resize (the growing part at least) is a matter of adding a new block device and extend domU''s vg to use that device. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users