From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: carlopmart <carlopmart@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions about creating virtual disks with qemu/kvm
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9B9AE9.1040909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9A3120.30505@gmail.com>
On 08/30/2009 10:58 AM, carlopmart wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes. Be sure to use raw files with cache=none.
> 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 ...
>
It's possible with device-mapper and loopback but I wouldn't recommend it.
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