[libvirt] [virt-tools-list] KVM Windows guest: add hard drive

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Oct 16 14:34:59 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:55:13PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > guestfish -a /dev/lvm0/win2003-01-a <<EOF
> > run
> > part-disk /dev/sda mbr
> > mkfs ntfs /dev/sda1
> > EOF
>
> Are you suggesting to erase mbr also?
> The guy is adding another disk to his vm so why does one need to erase
> mbr in vm?

OK, I see your confusion.

When you add disks to libguestfs, they appear as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb
and so on, in the same order that you added them.

In this case I added one disk, 'guestfish -a /dev/lvm0/win2003-01-a',
which will appear in libguestfs as /dev/sda.

This is *not* the same as /dev/sda in a VM.

Rich.

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