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Re: [Xen-users] About installing Virtual Machines in the same hdd partit
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-users] About installing Virtual Machines in the same hdd partition |
| From: | "Claus R. F. Overbeck" <xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:07:12 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag 02 Juni 2005 10:42 schrieb Fajar A. Nugraha: > Miguel Gómez wrote: > > The problem comes when I thing about installing a new Virtual Machine, > > I would not like to create a new partition in my hard disk to store > > the new virtual machine, what I would like to do is to have the same > > filesystems being shared by all the running Virtual Machines, plus > > Xen. Can I do this? > > Short answer : No. > > Long answer: > Linux requires some part of filesystem (/var, /tmp, etc.) to be > available read-write. Hi, can't one circumvent this by mounting ramdisks on these parts? Or if the whole root partition is not too big put it all in a ramdisk like on a diskless system? One could also mount only one ramdisk and create links for tmp and var pointing to dirs on the ramdisk. HTH Claus _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users |
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