[ale] Topic ideas for November meeting

[Horkan Smith]

Ok, makes sense - you're doing a lot more VM creation and management than I am, and have it a lot more automated than I do.

thanks!
   horkan

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:40:49PM -0500, Phil Turmel wrote:
> On 11/04/2015 10:34 AM, Horkan Smith wrote:
> 
> > Phil, I'm impressed by your setup and it's obviously a much bigger
> > part of your workflow than mine is... but I'm missing how the LVs
> > help vs using the virtual achine drives.  What am I not seeing?
> 
> Well, I started using host LVs as direct VM disks years ago when trying
> to squeeze the last ounce of performance out of my VMs.  I had to use an
> undocumented virtualbox function for raw devices, but it was worth it.
> It also made it convenient to access the VM's partitions when not
> running (kpartx).
> 
> Since switching to KVM under libvirt, I've been delighted by its direct
> support of host volume groups as storage pools.  So setting up a VM is now:
> 
> 1) tweak a kickstart file in my laptop's VM-facing webserver,
> 2) Use the virt-manager New VM wizard to pick my kickstart netinstaller
> and allocate a virtual disk,
> 3) Tweak the new VM's network assignment pre-install,
> 4) Hit go.
> 5) ssh in after a few minutes.
> 
> {The libvirt-kvm-spice-qxl-virtviewer stack just rocks, too.}
> 
> Phil
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