Re: [libvirt-users] Proper way to reference a disk

2015-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/06/2015 03:27 PM, Michael Schwager wrote: >> ​​which can give more accurate numbers when doing things like >> qcow2 format atop an LVM block device). >> > > > ​...This has me intrigued. We are running qcow2 format in files, and the > instructions I've seen have you converting qcow2 to raw

Re: [libvirt-users] Proper way to reference a disk

2015-05-06 Thread Michael Schwager
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > The source file / source dev thing really has me wondering. > Hopefully I answered it. > ​Yes you did, thanks.​ ​Furthermore,​ > ​​which can give more accurate numbers when doing things like > qcow2 format atop an LVM block device). > ​.

Re: [libvirt-users] Proper way to reference a disk

2015-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/06/2015 02:05 PM, Michael Schwager wrote: > Hi, > We are running on CentOS 7.0. We want to move our VMs (kvm/qemu) from > qcow/image files to logical volumes under LVM. > > I have moved one of them but I had a little trouble editing the disk > properly and I wonder what is the correct way to

[libvirt-users] Proper way to reference a disk

2015-05-06 Thread Michael Schwager
Hi, We are running on CentOS 7.0. We want to move our VMs (kvm/qemu) from qcow/image files to logical volumes under LVM. I have moved one of them but I had a little trouble editing the disk properly and I wonder what is the correct way to do it. Specifically, in the XML under the devices/disk sect

Re: [libvirt-users] Using Virtio drivers with kernal 2.6.18-164.el5

2015-05-06 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/6/2015 12:03 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: 2015-05-06 9:12 GMT+03:00 Jatin Davey : My guest is: [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/*release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) Let me know if i need to provide any more information in this regard. In case of centos you can use 2.6.18 because redhat backpor