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More details on the pool-list command in [[Virsh pool-list|virsh pool-list]].
More details on the pool-list command in [[Virsh pool-list|virsh pool-list]].


Build the pool and create the mount point:
Build the pool and create the mount point. More details here [[virsh pool-build]].


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Start the storage pool. This command mounts the filesystem onto the mount point created during the previous step:
Start the storage pool. This command mounts the filesystem onto the mount point created during the previous step. More details here: [[virsh pool-start]].


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Configure the storage pool to start at boot:
Configure the storage pool to start at boot. More details here: [[virsh pool-autostart]].


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virsh pool-autostart main-storage-pool
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Revision as of 15:50, 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.

Verify the new pool:

virsh pool-list --all

 Name                 State      Autostart
-------------------------------------------
 main-storage-pool    inactive   no

More details on the pool-list command in virsh pool-list.

Build the pool and create the mount point. More details here virsh pool-build.

virsh pool-build main-storage-pool

Start the storage pool. This command mounts the filesystem onto the mount point created during the previous step. More details here: virsh pool-start.

virsh pool-start main-storage-pool

Configure the storage pool to start at boot. More details here: virsh pool-autostart.

virsh pool-autostart main-storage-pool