[libvirt-users] Dual-boot and also use raw disk in virtual machine

[Justin Clift]

On 06/07/2010 02:39 PM, Richard Walker wrote:
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> And at last . . . success!

Interesting.  Hope you've taken a backup (image the hdd or something). :)

I wonder if it's possible to use a dedicated hdd as a snapshot backing 
store, with the copy on write difference file being else where.

   ie. /some/location/snapshot1.qcow2

That would let you use a VM with "/some/location/snapshot1.qcow2" as 
it's hard drive, and wouldn't then make any changes to your actual 
(working) dedicated windows hdd.  Lets you try things in a vm easily 
without ruining the primary image.

Disk i/o performance in the vm could be less than great though. :/

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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