Virsh pool-define-as
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Overview
Create, but do not start, a storage pool.
virsh pool-define-as <name> <type> --source-dev <source-dev> --target <target>
where:
name
The name of the storage pool.
type
Can be one of: "dir", "disk", "fs", "logical", "iscsi", "zfs", "sheepdog", "gluster", "netfs", "ceph", "rbd",
When using "pool-create-as" for a pool of type "disk", the existing partitions found on the --source-dev path will be used to populate the disk pool.
--print-xml
If specified, the command will print the XML of the pool object without defining the pool.
--source-dev
--target
Examples
virsh pool-define-as main-storage-pool fs --source-dev /dev/sda7 --target /main-storage-pool