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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: exporting a single partition?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:47:33 -0500
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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
>