On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:54:45AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:26:02PM +0100, Soeren Grunewald wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > for development i use a windows vm. which is installed into a disk > > image. because the compiler generates a lot of temporary files into the > > user tempdir (C:\\Documents And Users\\User\\Local Settings\\Temp) the > > vm becomes quite slow after a couple of weeks and i register a lot > > activity on the disk. > > so i moved the temp directory to a ram disk and no more problems. > > > > but because the ram disk is not formated on startup i need to do this by > > hand. so i disabled autostart for the vm and do the following: > > > > $ sudo mkfs.ntfs -q -L TEMP -I /dev/ram0 > > $ sudo virsh start windows > > > > so the question is, does libvirt provide some kind of pre startup script > > which is will be executed before the libvirtd does the autostart for the vm. > > No, there's no explicit hook for that. Given your description of the > setup you have, I'm wondering why you don't just format the NTFS > partition inside your windows guest as the first step of your build > process, or upon Windows startup. Using Windows' native NTFS formatting > tool rather than the linux mkfs.ntfs reverse engineered one sounds safer > to me anyway Oh, or the other option is to just create yourself an initscript in the host which dos the formatting, and configure it to start before the libvirtd initscript Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
