-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Don Morrison @ 04/26/2010 06:21 AM: > I've been able to do this both ways with libvirt/kvm. You have to define > your logical volume as a block device. the logical volume shows up as a hard drive during the installation of the VM. the issue i am having, though, is that, on the virtual hard drive, i still need to partition (at least) a root and swap partition. once i've done this, i am unable to see the VM's root and swap partitions in the hypervisor's LVM--it is still showing up as one, unallocated partition. i want it to actually show up as a root and swap partitions so i can work with them directly. i found this[1] page in the libvirt documentation that may be what i need. as the documentation states, all i should need to do is provide the name of my volume group. but, i cannot get it to work: after i define the XML file with virsh, the <pool> block disappears from the XML file. apparently i'm not defining it right, where is it supposed to go? i have tried putting it under the <domain> block as well as under the <devices> block. 1. http://libvirt.org/storage.html#StorageBackendLogical -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREIAAYFAkvWS4IACgkQXhfCJNu98qDusACeJWzz4TwxUVpRjLAm9H3WGeTb 4WwAn3ZdOrnQQg3V8QBmY13MRqTw+snH =1b3M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
