[ILUG] How do I add a second disk to a xen vm?

[Conor Wynne]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Stephen Burke <steviewdr at skynet.ie> wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Stephen Burke wrote:
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> > so you'd go:
> > disk =
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> > ['file:/xens/vm/diskimage.img,sda1,w','file:/xens/vm/swapimage.img,sda2,w',file:/xens/vm/diskimage2.img,sda1,w']
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> Apologies. Typo there in the previous line. Correct line for above:
> disk =
> ['file:/xens/vm/diskimage.img,sda1,w','file:/xens/vm/swapimage.img,sda2,w',file:/xens/vm/diskimage2.img,sda3,w']
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> Rgds,
> Steve Burke
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Good man Stephen,

[root at rh4 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/xvda: 4194 MB, 4194304000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 509 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/xvda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/xvda2              14         509     3984120   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/xvdb: 3145 MB, 3145728000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/xvdb1               1         382     3068383+  83  Linux

For reference, I used the following mode -- this is a para-virtualised rh4
server which will act as a yum repository for RHEL4 guests --

disk = [
"tap:aio:/var/xen_images/rhel4_yum_server.img,xvda,w","tap:aio:/var/xen_images/yumsrvdisk2.img,xvdb,w"
]

Now all i have to do is figure out how to make yum work properly with rhel4
and still be running a supported OS. ;-0

Regards & thanks again
Conor.