Re: [libvirt] need some help/asdive

On Sunday 28 June 2009 11:35:55 Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > My second question concerns the location of the disk images: what is the > > "best practical way" to move these out of the root partition? I have > > come up with these different approaches which could/may work: > > > > 1. change the "path" value in /etc/libvirt/storage/default.xml to point > > to a directory in a different partition. > > > > 2. Use a /etc/fstab entry to "bind mount" a directory in a separate > > partition onto /var/lib/libvirt/images > > > > 3. Just use an /etc/fstab entry to mount a partition on > > /var/lib/libvirt/images or, perhaps, on /var/lib/libvirt. [This could be > > done during system installation] > > > > OK, any comments on these?? > > There's no real 'right' answer here, but I'd recommend 1. really. There might not be a right answer but 1 is definitely a wrong answer.

Changing /etc/libvirt/storage/default.xml to point to a directory in a separate partition with lost of free space was easy. However, when I tried to create a new guest using virt-manager and the creation "wizard", for the disk image, it still showed the free space available in the root partition (8GB) rather than that of the other partition (120GB),