From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: carlopmart Subject: Questions about creating virtual disks with qemu/kvm Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:58:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4A9A3120.30505@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:37605 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751976AbZH3H60 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:58:26 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so643898eya.19 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, I hava some doubts about creating virtual disks under qemu/kvm: a) is it possible to share disks between virtual guests like vmware server, esx and xen does?? for example to setup a virtual cluster with two or more nodes using Red Hat Cluster Suite. b) Can I split virtual disks with some determined length? For example create an 8 GB virtual disk split on 2GB files with or without allocating all disk space ... Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com