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Re: [Xen-users] boot MS Windows installed natively in its own partition

To: Adi Kriegisch <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] boot MS Windows installed natively in its own partition
From: Aggelos <marmango@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:36:38 +0300
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on 04/21/2010 01:13 PM Adi Kriegisch wrote the following:
>> Once you have IDE drivers installed, you can use a domU config similar to 
>> this:
>>
>> ########################
>> memory = 1024
>>
>> vif = [ '' ]
>> disk =       [
>>      'phy:/dev/sda,hda,w!',
>>      ]
> I strongly suggest not to use "w!" but "w" instead. The "!" allows to
> export a disk to several domUs which will lead to data corruption in case
> of an ordinary file system (ntfs, vfat, ext[234], xfs and so on) and is
> only useful when used with cluster aware file systems like ocfs2 or gfs.
> 
Thanks !

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