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Re: [Xen-users] use of encrypted filesystem

Hi Chris,

This sounds like a pretty cool setup.

> With this setup the encrypted partition needs to be decrypted before the
> virtual machines are started but it has the advantage that the virtual
> machines don't need to do any encryption and yet are fully encrypted.

Indeed - the ability to do stuff like this transparently is a big win of 
virtualisation.

> I'll try and write this up on a wiki at some point... it's not as
> complicated as it sounds...

That would be cool - you could put it on the Xen wiki 
(http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/) if you get time to do this.

> I have done this with FC6 and I found this helpful:
>
>   http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_LVM_and_EVMS_over_cryptsetup-LUKS

You could link this from the Xen wiki too...

Thanks very much for the contribution!

Cheers,
Mark

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