disk partitioning for multiOS machine

[Lyos Gemini Norezel]

Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry this might be a bit off topic. I am getting a new laptop, and 
> plan to use fedora as my main OS. I will be installing Windows too for 
> the occasional game. I would also like to install open-solaris and/or 
> MacOSX, just to see what others are up to. Eventually I will also want 
> to run multiple VMs. It would be necessary to share data across those 
> OSs and VMs. I am lost as to how to partition/lvm the 250GB drive for 
> optimal use. Does anyone have a similar setup? any advice ?
I would partition it as follows:

5x 20GB partitions for Operating Systems
1.) Fedora (to be sub-partitioned into swap, boot, etc.
2.) OSX
3.) OpenSolaris
4.) Windows
5.) others?

Then a 100GB Data partition to be shared across all OSes.
The last 50GB, I would use for compressed VM images.
I'd do it in that order as well... simply because, on the chance you 
decide to forgo/delete the OSX and/or OpenSolaris partitions... you can 
easily extend the fedora partition into that space without having to 
repartition. The 100GB data partition gives more than enough space in 
which to share all needed data between Operating Systems and I'd suggest 
using Fat32 simply because it's recognizable/mountable/readable on all 
the above mentioned OSes. You can easily forgo the 50GB VM image 
partition and go with a 150GB combined data/VM image partition.


>
> Would KVM on F10 allow running the non-virtualized (i.e. on disk 
> installed) Windows and Solaris to run in full virt mode ? (That should 
> save space)
>
> Regards