RE: [Xen-users] Xen boot file

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wilson [mailto:jwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 June 2007 15:52
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen boot file
> 
> What do you mean by use the files within the GFS volume. Thats what I 
> thought I was doing when I got the error. Am I going about it wrong?

Sounds like it - but it may also be that virt-manager is doing something
wrong in itself. Since I don't use virt-manager (or anything similar), I
can't really say what you're doing wrong, if anything. 

--
Mats
> 
> Petersson, Mats wrote:
> >  
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> >> James Wilson
> >> Sent: 12 June 2007 15:38
> >> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [Xen-users] Xen boot file
> >>
> >> Hey All,
> >>
> >>     I have created one big gfs volume approx. 136GB and I 
> >> have exported 
> >> it through gnbd and successfully imported it and mounted it. 
> >> My idea is 
> >> to install a bunch of xen instances to files on the mounted 
> >> gfs volume. 
> >> But everytime I go to install using virt-manager it give me 
> >> this error. 
> >> "Could not allocate requested partitions: Adding this 
> partition would 
> >> not leave enough disk space for already allocated logical 
> volumes in 
> >> VolGroup00.." Should I split the storage up before exporting it?
> >>     
> >
> > I think you have two possible solutions: 
> > 1. You use FILES within the GFS volume, which means that 
> the file would
> > just be one of many files. 
> > 2. You use individual (LVM) volumes for each guest, in 
> which case you
> > need to split the it into (potentially many) logical volumes. 
> >
> > I suspect there are good and bad reasons for both, but I 
> don't think it
> > makes much of a difference performance-wise whether you 
> have one large
> > volume with many individual files or one volume per domain 
> - at least
> > not if you don't have HUGE traffic to/from the GFS volume. 
> >
> > --
> > Mats
> >
> >
> >
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