From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Johansson" Subject: organizing virtual machines Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:53:49 -0500 Message-ID: <421A667D.4030507@harvee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.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 -- http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html The basis of Abelard's philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the truth. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click