On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:28 -0400, Asrai khn wrote: > Hi I am wondering is there an easy way to configure domU (vm) quickly, > atm we are using eg LV (Logical Volumes) to storge root, var and swap > for VM and then using disk = [ 'phy:vg/myvmdisk1,sda1,w', ... ,... ] > to launch it. > > We takes the tar gunzip of file system of root, var of currently > running vm and when need arrives we just have to created LVs and > untar the achieves and launch the new vm with very little changes. > > Only one problem in this approach is that we get little outdated vm > which need to update using 'yum'. So is there a way to start new vm > fast and using currently updated running vm file system? > > Thanks. Askar. You could use LVM snapshots. They're copy-on-write, so they can be created quickly. Of course, if you start a new VM on a snapshot of a running VM, then the filesystem will not be clean (it will look as though it was from a system that was turned off without being shutdown). -- Chris Tyler http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/ -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
