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Re: [Xen-users] boot MS Windows installed natively in its own partition

To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] boot MS Windows installed natively in its own partition
From: Adi Kriegisch <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:13:05 +0200
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> Once you have IDE drivers installed, you can use a domU config similar to 
> this:
> 
> ########################
> memory = 1024
> 
> vif = [ '' ]
> disk =        [
>       'phy:/dev/sda,hda,w!',
>       ]
I strongly suggest not to use "w!" but "w" instead. The "!" allows to
export a disk to several domUs which will lead to data corruption in case
of an ordinary file system (ntfs, vfat, ext[234], xfs and so on) and is
only useful when used with cluster aware file systems like ocfs2 or gfs.

-- Adi

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