organizing virtual machines

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org>]

just want to make sure I'm understanding things correctly.

Every virtual machine must have effectively two partitions.  The first 
being a root partition containing all of the system executables and 
configuration files as well as the usual /var, /tmp, etc.  The second 
being storage for your application/user.

I imagine one could make a single partition to hold both of these sets 
of information but that's not the wisest choice.  my preference would 
also be to put /var on the data partition.

Assuming the use of a standard OS distribution like Gentoo, it is my 
impression that each virtual machine would be updated independently just 
like they would be on separate physical hardware platforms.

Obviously, this seems like a terrible waste of space but given the 
current dogs breakfast known as /etc, I'm not sure that is another 
solution.  I have a few ideas on how to fix this that may or may not pan 
out but not the hands (rsi).

anyway, just wanted to confirm the impressions from the documentation.

next task is mastering lvm2...

---eric


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