On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 08:59:44AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 12:33:52 +0100 > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > any machine you create on a tmpfs is a throwaway > > one, whether you intended that or not! > > That depends on if you migrate it off tmpfs to > hard disk once all the I/O involved in doing > an install is finished :-).
Indeed. Please note there is a potential trap here. If you just 'cp' the guest to another disk and immediately boot it with cache=none, then qemu might see a corrupt disk. You have to sync the disk after the copy. Easiest way is to use 'dd' to copy the disk, w/ option conv=fsync. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ virt mailing list virt@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
