Am 07.07.2008 um 15:12 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
There was some discussion at UDS about developing the ability to
trivially
clone a host machine into a VM so that users could easily test
their setups.
You can do this already. On the host machine, set aside a spare
partition for the OS,
On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed:
Am 07.07.2008 um 15:12 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
On the host machine, set aside a spare
partition for the OS, and perhaps one for the virtual machine's swap.
Setup your virtual machine to use these two partitions (not the
On Mon, July 7, 2008 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote:
I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines. How to you do
it? Only 2-3 distros per machine? 8 disks per machine? Something else?
There is LVM. It has a high learning curve, though.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
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On 2008/07/07 11:20 (GMT-0500) Jason Crain apparently typed:
On Mon, July 7, 2008 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote:
I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines. How to you do
it? Only 2-3 distros per machine? 8 disks per machine? Something else?
There is LVM. It has a high
Am 07.07.2008 um 16:59 schrieb Felix Miata:
On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed:
Then you can clone your OS to this spare partition, unmount it in
Ubuntu and launch your preferred virtual machine off it.
I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines.