Re: linux domU's and partitioning

[Sarton O'Brien <sobrien%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Monday 04 December 2006 14:23, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>   A virtual block device can't be partitioned in the Linux domain as
>    it is in the NetBSD domain. This means that each partition that
>    will be available in the Linux system have to be exported from the
>    domain0 system.
>
> This appears to be untrue, at least for gentoo xen kernels.
>
> I have a disk image file


I'm pretty sure the documentation is referring to a virtual block device 
whereas you are referring to a vnd pseudo device.

An image file can contain all required information to effectively mimic an 
entire disk. This can't be said for a single physical slice.

Sarton