Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Hello,
I have a question about supporting Xen. Can you write a sample configuration
for Xen where exists device /dev/hda1 for root filesystem but not
exists /dev/hda?
I need create configuration files and variables without partitioning
disks. Is it possible in new disk configuration utility?
I didn't consider Xen in the context of disk_config yet as I'm using (very
simple) hooks for my domains.
Actually I doubt that it is useful to consider such things here, I'd rather
suggest some (more intelligent) example hook. Any other opinions on this issue?
I'd defintely like to have the same disk config file for a xen vm. The
only difference in this case is that you don't need partioning, which
should be diabled by some configuration directive in the disk config file.
Then I'd like to define the scheme of disks and mountpoints to be used
in a xen vm in the same style as for all my other hosts.
Using hooks is possible but forces users to write a shell script with
the collected mkfs commands for each vm.
The first thing I would do if we don't have a universal config file
would be to create a simple file format where I write only my dev /
mountpoint mapping which is read from the extrbase.XENU hook, so I don't
have to repeatedly write mkfs command lines manually. Admittedly, as I
am starting to install xen vm's now/yesterday I'll do that anyway, but
be happy to switch to the universal format when available.
Henning
