Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-10 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/10/2015 06:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/08/2015 08:28 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: While this configuration is functional I regret creating a new storage pool in /home. Out of curiosity, why? In part because this directory was getting in the way of synchronizing user directories betwe

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/08/2015 08:28 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: While this configuration is functional I regret creating a new storage pool in /home. Out of curiosity, why? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/09/2015 05:00 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: modern filesystems and image formats do not allocate the whole space if not neccessary (qcow2 feature). Not specifically. Every disk image type would be sparse if it were copied off a disk and back by a tool that wrote them correctly. qcow2 does

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-09 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 09.05.2015 um 23:19 schrieb Paul R. Ganci : > On 05/08/2015 11:41 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> was wondering if this procedure might work to do what I desire: >> >> 1.) Shutdown the VMs >> 2.) Archive the VM image directory /home/vmimages to a network drive >> 3.) Use parted or fdisk to delete p

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-09 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/08/2015 11:41 PM, James Hogarth wrote: was wondering if this procedure might work to do what I desire: 1.) Shutdown the VMs 2.) Archive the VM image directory /home/vmimages to a network drive 3.) Use parted or fdisk to delete present /home partition 4.) Use parted or fdisk to re-create sm

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-09 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/08/2015 11:41 PM, James Hogarth wrote: Don't forget to virsh edit each domain and update the paths in that. In addition don't forget to fix your selinux contexts: semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/libvirt/images /vm-images Thank you for the reminder. My monitor would have taken some verb

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-08 Thread James Hogarth
On 9 May 2015 04:29, "Paul R. Ganci" wrote: > > I have a system with two CentOS 7.1 guests. When I created the VMs I did not have enough storage space in the default location /var/lib/libvirt/images so I moved the default location to a directory /home/vmimages. While this configuration is function

[CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-08 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I have a system with two CentOS 7.1 guests. When I created the VMs I did not have enough storage space in the default location /var/lib/libvirt/images so I moved the default location to a directory /home/vmimages. While this configuration is functional I regret creating a new storage pool in /h