KVM Virtualization Partition-Based Storage Pool Configuration: Difference between revisions

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virsh pool-define-as main-storage-pool - - /dev/sda7 - "/main-storage-pool"
virsh pool-define-as main-storage-pool fs --source-dev /dev/sda7 --target /main-storage-pool
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More details on the pool-define-as command in {{Internal|Virsh pool-define-as|virsh pool-define-as}}
More details on the pool-define-as command in {{Internal|Virsh pool-define-as|virsh pool-define-as}}

Revision as of 15:32, 26 June 2017

External

Internal

Overview

This article explains how to expose a pre-formatted block device partition as storage pool, using virsh.


Do not use this procedure to configure an entire disk as storage pool. Follow this procedure for that Disk-based Storage Pool Configuration.

Procedure

Create a new partition to be exposed as the local storage pool. Use fdisk. For this example, the partition will be referred to as /dev/sda7.

Create a file system on the newly allocated partition, as described in mkfs.xfs or mkfs.ext4:

mkfs.xfs /dev/sda7

Create a new storage pool definition:

virsh pool-define-as main-storage-pool fs --source-dev /dev/sda7 --target /main-storage-pool

More details on the pool-define-as command in

virsh pool-define-as