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Re: [Xen-users] DomUs and hard disks

To: Luis Roberto Romano <luisromano@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] DomUs and hard disks
From: Digimer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:42:39 -0400
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On 08/01/2011 07:38 PM, Luis Roberto Romano wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> According to the documentation I've read, there's 2 ways to make the
> virtual disks for DomUs storage:
> 1 - Image-based disks.
> 2 - LVM disks
> 
> But, I was wondering if I can assign a regular partition (e.g sda1) to a
> DomU, instead of a LVM.
> Is that possible?
> 
> Thanks.

I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work fine. LVM offers a lot of
benefits, which is probably why it's so often mentioned.

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