<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>We run Xen3 on CentOS, and define the disks (logical volumes in our case) like your first example:<br><br>disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/VGL-qa01a.qa,xvda,w', 'phy:/dev/mapper/VGL-qa01a.qa--DB,xvdb,w' ]<br><br><br>I wasn't familiar with the XML-based config files, and found a nice quick write-up on http://www.madmadmod.com/xen/8-xen-domu-configuration-files.html. The XML version is used with the libvirt toolkit, so I guess it depends on how you're starting the guests.<br><br><br><br>Regards,<br>Scott<br><br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"L. V. Lammert" <lvl@omnitec.net><br><b>To: </b>"Grand Rapids LUG" <grlug@grlug.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:40:34 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[GRLUG] Xen folks?<br><br>Trying to add a disk to a guest VM, .. however the config is confusing:<br><br>In /etc/xen/vm/Mainserver<br><br>disk=[ 'phy:/dev/sdb1,xvda:cdrom,r', 'file:/u/disk/Mainserver.raw,xvdb,w',<br>]<br><br>In /etc/xen/vm/Mainserver.xml<br><br> </disk><br> <disk type='file' device='disk'><br> <driver name='file'/><br> <source file='/u/disk/Mainserver.raw'/><br> <target dev='xvdb'/><br> </disk><br><br>However, the physical PATH to the disks is:<br><br>/u/VM/images/Mainserver<br><br>The VM runs, .. so what is the reason for the discrepancy? I have created<br>a new 250GB data drive to attach to the VM, but how should the path be<br>specified?<br><br> Lee<br>_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br>grlug@grlug.org<br>http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br></div></body></html>