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neuron
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 Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: vmware + physical drives. |
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a friend of mine has a few harddrives glued together by lvm, and he asked me if vmware could boot em from another system.
And now he got me really curius, is that possible? I guess I'd have to give vmware physical access to quite many drives, but I'm a little spooked by doing it, as I imagine it could cause permanent damage to my lvm setup.
Has anyone tried anything like this? |
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thesnowman
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I've got VMware installed on an Ubuntu box with two SATA drives using software RAID1. VMware server does not allow me to install to LVM partitions. It allows me to select the "physical" partitions, but not the LVM ones. That is I could use the whole LVM partition, but no the individual LVM volumes. |
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neuron
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| thesnowman wrote: | | I've got VMware installed on an Ubuntu box with two SATA drives using software RAID1. VMware server does not allow me to install to LVM partitions. It allows me to select the "physical" partitions, but not the LVM ones. That is I could use the whole LVM partition, but no the individual LVM volumes. |
yeah, but he'd be booting them from another physical partition (another hd infact) so the lvm volume wouldn't be active. That's why I'm thinking it might be possible to boot his current install, physical drives later loading the lvm, just as the normal bios boots his current system. |
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