From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Install a VM into a file or a LV ? Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:09:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4D2489C6.6020103@redhat.com> References: <15785B7E063D464C86DD482FCAE4EBA5012E8F22C05B@XCH11.scidom.de> <4D246D3C.8030506@redhat.com> <4D247FAD.3080303@shiftmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Lentes, Bernd" , "'KVM-ML (kvm@vger.kernel.org)'" To: Reeted Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26655 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699Ab1AEPKG (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:10:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D247FAD.3080303@shiftmail.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/05/2011 04:26 PM, Reeted wrote: > On 01/05/2011 02:08 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> My aim is that i want to create a HA-Cluster. For every service >>> (currently 3) i'd like to create a VM. I want to have two >>> hosts/nodes, both running SLES 11 SP1. I want to use DRBD to >>> replicate the File/LV to the passive node. Do you thing that's a >>> good solution ? >>> >> >> Sure, this can work, just be sure to test it extensively. >> Roll-your-own solutions often aren't. >> > > Often aren't what? Tested extensively. > > Do you consider DRBD a roll-your-own solution or a standard one? > > (I suppose the opposite of "roll-your-own" is "standard"...) I have no experience or knowledge about DRBD. I'm more concerned about the code that detects failure and switches things over, and makes sure the guest isn't running on both nodes, etc. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function