Re: [libvirt-users] Disk atomicity...

2011-02-07 Thread David W King
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is okay to do concurrent mounts if _all_ of the mounts are RO, right? I frequently have many VM's mounting the same DVD iso (RO, of course). Should I be anticipating disaster? David King Goshen College ITS davi...@goshen.edu 574-535-7726 On 02/

Re: [libvirt-users] Disk atomicity...

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 04:29:35AM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > I suspect the answer is no, as the very idea makes > my head hurt, but a confirmation would be nice: > > Am I correct in assuming that it is a very bad idea > to mount a physical disk on both the physical machine > and on a hosted VM at

[libvirt-users] Disk atomicity...

2011-02-04 Thread Dale Amon
I suspect the answer is no, as the very idea makes my head hurt, but a confirmation would be nice: Am I correct in assuming that it is a very bad idea to mount a physical disk on both the physical machine and on a hosted VM at the same time? I can imagine getting away with it if one were RO, but