Re: [Xen-users] installing fc6 as domU directly on lvÂs

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:41:06PM +0200, Philippe Trolliet wrote:
> hi,
> since 2 days i´m trying to install fedora core 6 directly on logical
> volumes. my host system is FC6 too.
> i want to have following layout in my domU:
> /dev/group/ServerRoot         mounted in domU as /
> /dev/group/ServerVar          mounted in domU as /var
> /dev/group/ServerSwap         mounted in domU as swap device for the server
> 
> my xen-config looks like this:
> 
> name = "mailserver-FC6"
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6xen"
> memory = 512
> disk = ['phy:VolGroup00/MailserverRoot,sda1,w',
> 'phy:VolGroup00/MailserverVar,sda2,w',
> 'phy:VolGroup00/MailserverSwap,sda3,w']

That isn't going to work - the Anaconda installer will only look for
block devices, not partitions. Having partitions which are not a part
of a block device is a Xen driver hack which is not supportable. If 
you want to have 3 completely separate volumes in the host be visible
as 3 separate volumes inside the guest, then you can export them as 
individual devices 'xdva', 'xvdb', 'xvdc'. Then in Anaconda create a 
single partition on each one, eg  xvda1, xvdb1, xvdc1  which you can 
then map to /, /var and swap respectively. 

Regards,
Dan.
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