From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= Subject: Re: Storage for library of domains Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:05:52 +0100 Message-ID: <422379A0.6050502@fzu.cz> References: <42237353.2000306@fzu.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: 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: m h Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org m h wrote: > Ideally the library of domains would be available to more than one > machine running xen. So I could use LVM on the "library" machine. > Anyone have suggestions on how to load the domain from the library > onto the xen machines? Rsync? (Does LVM have a way to do this? A > quick read through the howto did not reveal that to me.) Please, reply also to the list, not just to me :-). LVM can (afaik) operate over any block device, so the setup you want is to have some blockdev in pristine state and others serving as a storage for domains. Some cluster management suite could help you, but I'm not sure if there's anything that supports block device sharing between computers... -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth ------------------------------------------------------- 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