From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exporting a single partition?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:47:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487280E5.9000904@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701153808.GC31844@bitfolk.com>
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible at the moment to export a single partition to a kvm
> guest as a virtio block device, like you can with Xen? e.g. with
> LVM on the host, /dev/somevg/somelv -> /dev/vda1 ?
>
> As far as I can see at the moment this is possible but it would have
> to be the whole of /dev/vda and therefore contain a partition
> table..
>
No, because you can always use /dev/vda when you would normally use
/dev/vda1.
For instance, "root=/dev/vda" will do the Right Thing.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 15:38 exporting a single partition? Andy Smith
2008-07-01 16:10 ` Javier Guerra
2008-07-07 20:47 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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