ok, thx
i'm afraid thats truly the best way to do it...for me
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Thx again
Soeren
On 11.02.2010 12:57, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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
