From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Questions about creating virtual disks with qemu/kvm Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:01 +0300 Message-ID: <4A9B9AE9.1040909@redhat.com> References: <4A9A3120.30505@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: carlopmart Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64823 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829AbZHaJmD (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:42:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A9A3120.30505@gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function