Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, On 10/28/2012 06:25 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:34:40PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > > Just a note. The edit of the source dev in the kvm xml file did work for one > test VM (once I had the drbd set to primary - duh). But it DID NOT work for > the next one I tried it on. The VM after the change could not fully boot. So > if someone in the future makes the initial mistake I did re layering drbd > and raw VMs on individual LVM volumes, the short-cut solution of simply > changing the xml to point to by DRBD partition name rather than LVM partion > name is not safe. The failed instance got part way into booting, but failed > to find and mount whole partitions within the VM. More details would be appreciated. Did the afflicted VM have multiple <disk> sections in its config? Where all of them migrated to DRBD? Or was the original LV (and now, the DRBD) partitioned? Thanks, Felix >> The easy road ... this edited XML: >> >> <disk type='block' device='disk'> >> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> >> <source dev='/dev/drbd/by-res/sql'/> >> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> >> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> >> </disk>