On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/18/2014 06:26 PM, Richard Taubo wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have created a guest disk like this: >> a) lvcreate -L 30G -n Vm1 VolGroup >> b) mkfs.xfs /dev/VolGroup/Vm1 >> >> And installed the VM like this: >> c) virt-install --name=vm1.mydomain.com \ >> --disk path=/dev/VolGroup/Vm1 \ >> … rest_of_arguments >> >> Questions: >> 1) Is b) above necessary, or are a) and c) sufficient? >> >> 2) If b) is necessary, should /dev/VolGroup/Vm1 be mounted while installing and >> while running the VM? >> > > If you're passing OS install media to virt-install, the b) is not required: the os installer will format the disk, same as it would on a physical machine. Thanks! 1) So no mounting on host then? 2) Is it possible to take a LVM snapshot of the guest from the host (and make a backup)? Again, thanks for any info! :-) Best regards, Richard Taubo _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
