7 Replies Latest reply on Jul 17, 2013 7:10 PM by serverchief

    LVM support?

    marcik
    marcik Jul 7, 2011 9:03 AM

      Is it possible to create appliances with LVM paritions?

        • 1. Re: LVM support?
          goldmann
          goldmann Jul 7, 2011 9:04 AM (in response to marcik)

          Marcin,

           

          Currently not, but it's planned: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/BGBUILD-235

           

          --Marek

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          • 2. Re: LVM support?
            marcik
            marcik Jul 7, 2011 9:14 AM (in response to goldmann)

            Thanks for quick answer.

             

            Looking at this ticket, it's a different thing from what i'd want.

            This ticket describes LVM volume as a target for an image. But I'd like to have LVM partitions inside appliance, to give them more flexibility. Or maybe it's already possible, i haven't found it in docs.

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            • 3. Re: LVM support?
              goldmann
              goldmann Jul 7, 2011 9:21 AM (in response to marcik)

              Marcin,

               

              This ticket is about what you described above, at least I understand this ticket like this

               

              --Marek

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              • 4. Re: LVM support?
                marcik
                marcik Jul 7, 2011 9:29 AM (in response to goldmann)

                Oh, thats good :-)

                 

                But as i wrote before - i'm quite sure that this ticket is about using whole LVM volume as target for a appliance storage, so no raw or qcow images on filesystem, to make it faster. But as i don't need that i'll be very happy if you'll end up with implementing LVM inside images :-)

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                • 5. Re: LVM support?
                  steawiec
                  steawiec Aug 3, 2012 9:46 AM (in response to marcik)

                  Hi,

                  any chance to have lvm support in the future or did you quit to develope it???

                  Or there's a workaround to enable it in the .appl file?

                  thank you in advance

                  regards

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                  • 6. Re: LVM support?
                    msavy
                    msavy Aug 7, 2012 9:53 AM (in response to steawiec)

                    It is something we'd like to do in the future, but with some of the tools we're using at present it isn't possible.

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                    • 7. Re: LVM support?
                      serverchief
                      serverchief Jul 17, 2013 7:10 PM (in response to marcik)

                      BoxGrinder uses appliance-creator (aka thincrust) which is no longer maintained, however, there is a patch on thincrust mailing list to enable lvm support, which i tested and can confirm as functional.

                       

                      BoxGrinder successefuly creates VM with LVM, however, when it comes to part of customizing it, it fails to identify the proper disk (since now its not direct /dev/vda2 for / but LVM based partition and hence it errors out).

                       

                      I guess we need to add a logic to it to look for LVM partition instead of /dev/vda2 (or whatever its / partition is equivalent too).

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