[ale] LVM2 & VirtualBox Help.

[Ed Cashin]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Jack Schneider <puck at dp-indexing.com> wrote:
...
> Ed, Here's where the above comes from.  NOTE: Rather than clutter the
> thread.   Sent to  http://paste.debian.net/101493/
>
> I'll look into doing what you suggested... THX.

The text at that URL talks about using raw disks directly from VMs
without going through the host filesystem, but I wasn't talking about
that, and I was talking about using a filesystem mounted somewhere
to store the files for the virtual disks, which isn't raw disk access.

But raw disk access seems really inconvenient for anything but
the most static or the most automated system configurations.  Maybe
you don't need to arrange for the VMs to directly use block devices
themselves?  It probably doesn't buy you much measurable performance
compared to the trouble.

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