Using Xen With LVM-Based VMs Instead Of Image-Based VMs (Debian Etch)

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Jan 17, 2009

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“In this example I’m using a Debian Etch host with the
LVM volume group /dev/vg0 that has about 50GB of space. /dev/vg0
contains two logical volumes, /dev/vg0/root and /dev/vg0/swap_1
that consume about 7GB of space – the rest is not allocated and can
be used to create logical volumes for our virtual
machines:”


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