Re: [Xen-users] Using lvm for domUs

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rene Purcell wrote:
> did you create partition in your LV ? I mean you added something like 
> "phy:/dev/main/xen_DomU_logs,hda,w" when you've installed your 
> distribution did you create a partition hda1 in the installation 
> process or did you just copy some data into hda ?
> what's the distro you've installed ?
I'm working with RedHat and CentOS. The installer itself insists on 
having a local disk device to load up and install a boot loader, and I 
haven't worked out the details of a pitiful excuse for documentation of 
the Xen config files to figure out how to gracefully over-ride the use 
of pygrub. The result is that I have a disk image, not a partition image 
or set of partition images, where an LVM partition claled 
/dev/XEN/xenguest1 will be seen by the guest domain as /dev/xvda, and 
have internal partitions of /dev/xdva1 /dev/xvda[whatever].
I *want* to be able to snapshot the LVM partitions mount the snapshots, 
and run backup operations against those on Dom0 instead of paying the 
overhead of running them from DomU.
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