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From: paolo pedaletti <paolo.pedaletti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to assign partition as partition for KVM?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:05:38 +0100
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Ciao =D0=A2=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8F,

> Is there any way to assign single partition to KVM virtual machine (f=
or example, i need to assign /dev/sda1 on my host as /dev/hda1 on VM)
> In XEN this assignment looks like disk=3D[ 'phy:/dev/lvm_dg-vol1,xvda=
1,w',].

with LVM, you can do that:

kvm ..... -drive file=3D/dev/mapper/vm-root,if=3Dscsi,index=3D0,boot=3D=
on ......

I think it should work even without LVM, for example:
kvm ..... -drive file=3D/dev/sda1,if=3Dscsi,index=3D0,boot=3Don ......

--=20
Paolo Pedaletti