On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:11:02PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > Right I did create an LVM manually but inside the LVM > how do you make 2 filesystems co exist. > Meaning > when I do an lvscan I get the following on command prompt > > lvscan > ACTIVE '/dev/nintendo/lvm1' [100.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/nintendo/lvm2' [150.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/nintendo/lvm3' [50.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/nintendo/lvm4' [100.00 GiB] inherit > > Now note in above four LVMs four different Guest OSeS are runninng. > I had created four LVMs in volume group nintendo on command line but > I did not created any filesystem in them.
These are disk images. They contain partition tables, filesystems, logical volumes etc inside them. > This part was taken care by virt-manager when I installed the guest on it > using virt-manager. Actually it was done by the guest. The guest saw the host LV as a big, empty hard disk, and it put its own partitions, filesystems and so on in there. >From the point of view of the host however these are just big blocks of binary data. What you need to deal with disk images is libguestfs: http://libguestfs.org/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
