Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 07.07.2008 um 16:59 schrieb Felix Miata: > On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed: > >> Then you can clone your OS to this spare partition, unmount it in >> Ubuntu and launch your preferred virtual machine off it. > > I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my mac

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/07/07 11:20 (GMT-0500) Jason Crain apparently typed: > On Mon, July 7, 2008 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote: >> I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines. How to you do >> it? Only 2-3 distros per machine? 8 disks per machine? Something else? > There is LVM. It has a high le

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Jason Crain
On Mon, July 7, 2008 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote: > I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines. How to you do > it? Only 2-3 distros per machine? 8 disks per machine? Something else? There is LVM. It has a high learning curve, though. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > User-Agent:

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed: > Am 07.07.2008 um 15:12 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > On the host machine, set aside a spare > partition for the OS, and perhaps one for the virtual machine's swap. > Setup your virtual machine to use these two partitions (not the