Re: [Xen-users] Xen boot file

[James Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean by use the files within the GFS volume. Thats what I 
thought I was doing when I got the error. Am I going about it wrong?
Petersson, Mats wrote:
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> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> > James Wilson
> > Sent: 12 June 2007 15:38
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-users] Xen boot file
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> > Hey All,
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> >     I have created one big gfs volume approx. 136GB and I 
> > have exported 
> > it through gnbd and successfully imported it and mounted it. 
> > My idea is 
> > to install a bunch of xen instances to files on the mounted 
> > gfs volume. 
> > But everytime I go to install using virt-manager it give me 
> > this error. 
> > "Could not allocate requested partitions: Adding this partition would 
> > not leave enough disk space for already allocated logical volumes in 
> > VolGroup00.." Should I split the storage up before exporting it?
> >     
> I think you have two possible solutions: 
> 1. You use FILES within the GFS volume, which means that the file would
> just be one of many files. 
> 2. You use individual (LVM) volumes for each guest, in which case you
> need to split the it into (potentially many) logical volumes. 
>
> I suspect there are good and bad reasons for both, but I don't think it
> makes much of a difference performance-wise whether you have one large
> volume with many individual files or one volume per domain - at least
> not if you don't have HUGE traffic to/from the GFS volume. 
>
> --
> Mats
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