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Re: [Xen-users] Xen boot file

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:53:41PM +0200, Petersson, Mats wrote:
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Wilson [mailto:jwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 12 June 2007 15:52
> > To: Petersson, Mats
> > Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen boot file
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Sounds like it - but it may also be that virt-manager is doing something
> wrong in itself. Since I don't use virt-manager (or anything similar), I
> can't really say what you're doing wrong, if anything. 

Virt-manager isn't really involved here - the error message quoted is
coming from the guest OS' install program - Anaconda I guess. Virt-manager
will merely create a file in the directoy you request & list it in the
guest config, or list a physical device in the guest config

> > >>     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?

Dan.
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