[ale] Creating Libvirt Storage Pool

Michael B. Trausch mbt at zest.trausch.us
Wed Jul 1 23:34:22 EDT 2009


On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:

> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>>
>> Would this[0] happen to be what you're looking for, or are you looking for
>> some programmatic way to do it?
>
> I'm looking for a command to run or configuration file to edit to create
> a new storage pool. That page explains the various kinds of pools and
> has snippets of xml configuration, but no clear steps on how to create them.
>
> Maybe I'm being lazy and I should be able to figure it out from that
> page. In previous versions of virt-manager it was straightforward to
> make a virtual disk image in any directory, and I'm somewhat peeved they
> took that away without clearly explaining what I should do instead.

All I can say from what's there is I'd look for XML files in wherever it is 
that libvirt stores things... IIRC it likes to put things in /var, so you 
might search there for XML files and see if any that turn up are what you're 
looking for.

 	--- Mike


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