Recent content by tcit

I have a quick question that I haven't been able to find directly answered in the forums yet or in the kvm or qemu documentation. Hopefully it's just a quick reply for you guys, and a chance for me to help the community out. So here's 2 questions: If I issue a live snapshot (aka. NOT a qcow...

That's too bad; it sounds like you've already tried it with the common options. I had high hopes that there would be at least one filesystem that could fit the bill. Part of what spurred my interest was actually Lustre filesystem (see...

Tom, I am not referring to performance when it comes to VM execution. The conditions I refer to are: Majority of VMs use KVM KVM VMs use an average of 32-400GB Filesystems of VMs are maintained with an average of around 50%, and sometimes even more free space Business has need of...

I would like to list some cases where I feel files are better than LVMs for virtual machines and why. I have seen numerous posts on this forum about the use of clustered filesystems (GFS, GFS2, OC2FS, etc.) either standalone or on top of DRBD. For all of them the answer is basically that LVM +...