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Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: |
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> On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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>> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the |
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>> snapshots etc ... |
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> Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and |
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> registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. |
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> Without that, KVM is useless to me. |
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KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. |
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AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn |
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controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). |
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> I thought the MBR info that's possible with GPT would make it |
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> possible with any BIOS? Provided the /boot partition is early enough |
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> on the disk. |
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I had no separate /boot ... just sda1 as "BIOS boot partition", |
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unformatted and with partition type ef02 (and sda2 as my gentoo-root). |
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>> I also wanted to partition the SSD according to the Erase Block |
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>> Size of 6144 kB by this way ... dunno if this is still needed or |
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>> has any real speed benefits. |
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> Again, I would expect current tools should do that automagically? |
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Maybe. |
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>> Maybe I take another approach to migrate to UEFI/GPT in the next |
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>> days, now that I have my rsynced filesystems at hand (I got rid of |
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>> more LVs and stuff so it gets pretty slim now). |
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> Less LVs is simpler. More is more flexible. |
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Exactly. But it was time to clean up a bit. |
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>>> booting works from BIOS/MBR. |
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>> ... if your BIOS isn't crappy ;-) |
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> Try updating? :) |
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Never found an update for this box. |
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-> DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Elite 7300 Series MT/2AB5, BIOS 7.12 10/12/2011 |
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hints welcome ;-) |
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> Seriously, do you have the following: |
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> *** # man gdisk artemis ~ # gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) |
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> version 0.8.8 |
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> Partition table scan: MBR: protective |
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> *** |
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> That last line of what I copied is the bit that should make it |
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> possible. |
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> Also, the /boot partition needs to have the mbr-boot flag (or |
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> whatever it's called) enabled. |
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Thanks, but I had that as well ... I will skip that stuff and try going |
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the UEFI-way later this day, if my customers allow ... |
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Stefan |
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