Re: [libvirt-users] How to have a directory and its subdirectories as a storage pool

2014-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2014 10:11 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >> At the moment, you have to create a new storage pool for each >> subdirectory you want to recurse into. > > Which would mean one storage "pool" per VM, which is not really > practical. Why is it not practical, if virt-manager is patched to create such

Re: [libvirt-users] How to have a directory and its subdirectories as a storage pool

2014-09-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:15:04AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/03/2014 06:11 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > > I would like to use btrfs subvolumes as storage place for VM images to > > use snapshots. > > > > Unfortunately, this does not seem to work in virt-manager at least > > since the "filesystem

Re: [libvirt-users] How to have a directory and its subdirectories as a storage pool

2014-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2014 06:11 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use btrfs subvolumes as storage place for VM images to > use snapshots. > > Unfortunately, this does not seem to work in virt-manager at least > since the "filesystem directory" storage pool type does not allow me > to descend in

[libvirt-users] How to have a directory and its subdirectories as a storage pool

2014-09-03 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I would like to use btrfs subvolumes as storage place for VM images to use snapshots. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work in virt-manager at least since the "filesystem directory" storage pool type does not allow me to descend into subdirectories. Is there a trick to do this? Can I do