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Re: exporting large partitions to hvm guests



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:26:25PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Chris Brookes wrote:
>> Anybody tried to export a large partition, say /dev/ld0j at > 250G to
>> a windows HVM dom-u? It's showing up as (roughly ) a 1mb qemu disk.
>
> This is a bug or missing feature in qemu. To fix this,
> we would need to upgrade to Xen 3.2.x.

In the meantime (and depending on the OS in your HVM guest) you can
export the disk volume to the guest via the network, using iSCSI.
This is likely to be a preferable choice longer term too, at least for
some circumstances.

--
Dan.

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