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From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Subject: Re: Live Migration, DRBD
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:37:51 -0400
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Jim wrote:
> Yes, there is a way, but first your setup is a little strange. Why do you
> take a device (the DRBD) then put a file system on it which just contains a
> file with the system image? Why not use the DRBD device directly as your system
> disk?
>
> e.g. qemu-system-86_64 -hda /dev/drbdX
>   

That does sound smarter. I guess I was assuming files because they are
easier to otherwise manipulate.


Thanks!

-kb