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blacksoul
Asked: 2012-06-29 04:18:18 +0800 CST

Attach to Windows Guest a Pool Storage Directory KVM

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I just created a storage pool directory based in my Host KVM

# virsh pool-list --all

Name                 State      Autostart 
-----------------------------------------
guest_images_dir     active     yes

And the info:

# virsh pool-info guest_images_dir

Name:           guest_images_dir
UUID:           720c6735-9ca0-e7c2-18cf-396c729a512e
State:          running
Persistent:     yes
Autostart:      yes
Capacity:       920.54 GB
Allocation:     23.02 GB
Available:      897.51 GB

Here is the XML

# cat /etc/libvirt/storage/autostart/guest_images_dir.xml 

<pool type='dir'>
  <name>guest_images_dir</name>
  <uuid>720c6735-9ca0-e7c2-18cf-396c729a512e</uuid>
  <capacity>0</capacity>
  <allocation>0</allocation>
  <available>0</available>
  <source>
  </source>
  <target>
    <path>/home/virtuals/shared_dir_kvm</path>
    <permissions>
          <mode>0700</mode>
          <owner>-1</owner>
          <group>-1</group>
        </permissions>
  </target>
</pool>

But I can't see it on my guest Windows 2008. What else do I do?

Thanks

virtualization windows-server-2008 linux debian kvm-virtualization

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    A pool is a place where you are supposed to place images. You will not see it form the VM, because what the VM can see are images, as disks, not the grouping of the images in pools.

    If you go into the pool, and create a volume there, and attach that volume to the VM, it will see a new attached disk, it will be able to format and use

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