[Xen-users] Re: [Fedora-xen] Encrypted virtual machines on Fedor

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:27:19PM +0000, Chris Croome wrote:
> Hi
> 
> If anyone ever wants to create virtual machines on an encrypted hard
> disk then the notes here might help:
> 
>   http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/EncryptedPartitions

That is a nice guide ! One question - you did the encryption on the 
raw block device (/dev/md1) and then created LVM volumes within it.
Any reason you didn't do it the other way around. Eg, make /dev/md1
the PV in a VG, and then encrypt individual LVM logical volumes.
There shouldn't be any real difference in securitywith the latter
way, and it would remove the need to run 'vgscan' after running the
luksOpen command. It would also let you use difference LUKS passwords
on a per-VM basis if desired.

Regards,
Dan.
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