From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Smith Subject: exporting a single partition? Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:38:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20080701153808.GC31844@bitfolk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+" To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from bitfolk.com ([212.13.194.70]:51285 "EHLO bitfolk.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753438AbYGAQDz (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:03:55 -0400 Received: from andy by bitfolk.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KDhvk-0007pd-E8 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:38:09 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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.. Cheers, Andy --ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIak9gIJm2TL8VSQsRAoXrAJ9En0uQ8urM8HymbGUQ5TjL09c4ZQCgpB5i 8vU9pPdC9vx6uBTcbOj8pFM= =7k26 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+--