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Re: [Xen-users] How to share data between guest domains

To: Rene <forumuser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to share data between guest domains
From: Richard Jones <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:45:21 +0000
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 07:33:56PM +0000, Rene wrote:
> What do you think is the best way to share data between guest domains?
> Would that be something like NFS?
> 
> Would appreciate it if someone could give me some advice.

We've set up NFS home directories.  One of the domU's is an NFS server
and the others all mount /home.

Works well.  It was very slow until we started mounting the NFS
partitions over TCP, which solved that problem.

We use NIS to synchronise the userids/passwd entries.

Rich.

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