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RE: [Xen-users] Some Doubts regarding HVM

To: "trilok nuwal" <tc.nuwal@xxxxxxxxx>, "Xen list" <Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Some Doubts regarding HVM
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:22:57 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> trilok nuwal
> Sent: 12 April 2007 07:46
> To: Xen list
> Subject: [Xen-users] Some Doubts regarding HVM
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> My dom0  REHL5 xen OS.
> 
> I installed RHEL4U4  on disk /dev/cciss/c0d1. I exported this 
> to domU in config file as hda as below. 
> 
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/cciss/c0d1,hda,w' , 'phy:/dev/sdb2,hdb2,w' ]
> 
> hda is exported properly but my other partition /dev/sdb2 is 
> not exported to Domu. 
> 
> And if I change to disk with full disk then it works fine.
> 
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/cciss/c0d1,hda,w' , 'phy:/dev/sdb,hdb,w' ]
> 
> So conclusion is that we can't export a partition in HVM 
> case. Is it correct ?

That is correct. The reason for this is that the hardware emulation
layer doesn't know anything about partitions. You can of course make a
partition into a disk if you want, such as:
'phy:/dev/sdb2,hdb,w'

But the hardware (or io) emulation doesn't have a clue what a partition
is, because partitions are just a way for the OS to partition a disk
into sections (it used to be really important because disks could only
have a certain size [x number of sectors, blocks or clusters, whichever
the file-system utilized], but nowadays, with 64-bit pointers in
file-systems, it's pretty much just a organizational tool to keep
different types of data separated from each other). 
> 
> If this then we cant install a OS on a partition and start a 
> HVM domain.

That would be correct. 
> 
> My problem is that on my laptop i have a single hard disk, so 
> i can't install a Guest OS on this, because this require a 
> full disk to be exported to guest OS.

Get a USB-disk, perhaps?

I don't believe Xen is meant to solve this problem, really. [And I have
some doubt that you'd actually be successful in running a native OS and
the same OS as guest-OS, but that's a different story]. 

--
Mats
> 
> Any help..
> 
> Thanks,
> Trilok
> 
> 



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