[libvirt-users] How to have a directory and its subdirectories as a storage pool

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:15:04AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/03/2014 06:11 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I would like to use btrfs subvolumes as storage place for VM images to
> > use snapshots.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this does not seem to work in virt-manager at least
> > since the "filesystem directory" storage pool type does not allow me
> > to descend into subdirectories.
> > 
> > Is there a trick to do this? Can I do it with virsh, or in the XML?
> 
> At the moment, you have to create a new storage pool for each
> subdirectory you want to recurse into.

Which would mean one storage "pool" per VM, which is not really
practical.

>   Yes, it would be nice if virt-manager could automate this a bit
>   more.

Is there a bug/request tracker for libvirt?

Greetings
Marc

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