Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the >> snapshots etc ... > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). > I thought the MBR info that's possible with GPT would make it > possible with any BIOS? Provided the /boot partition is early enough > on the disk. I had no separate /boot ... just sda1 as "BIOS boot partition", unformatted and with partition type ef02 (and sda2 as my gentoo-root). >> I also wanted to partition the SSD according to the Erase Block >> Size of 6144 kB by this way ... dunno if this is still needed or >> has any real speed benefits. > > Again, I would expect current tools should do that automagically? Maybe. >> Maybe I take another approach to migrate to UEFI/GPT in the next >> days, now that I have my rsynced filesystems at hand (I got rid of >> more LVs and stuff so it gets pretty slim now). > > Less LVs is simpler. More is more flexible. Exactly. But it was time to clean up a bit. >>> booting works from BIOS/MBR. >> >> ... if your BIOS isn't crappy ;-) > > Try updating? :) Never found an update for this box. -> DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Elite 7300 Series MT/2AB5, BIOS 7.12 10/12/2011 hints welcome ;-) > Seriously, do you have the following: > > *** # man gdisk artemis ~ # gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) > version 0.8.8 > > Partition table scan: MBR: protective > > *** > > That last line of what I copied is the bit that should make it > possible. > > Also, the /boot partition needs to have the mbr-boot flag (or > whatever it's called) enabled. Thanks, but I had that as well ... I will skip that stuff and try going the UEFI-way later this day, if my customers allow ... Stefan
