[libvirt-users] create a directory storage pool in a random location

[Martin Kletzander]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:41:46AM +0000, Andrei Perietanu wrote:
>Hi all,
>   I am trying to figure out if you can store the definition of a directory
>storage pool in a custom location.
>
>This is how I create the storage pool:
>xmlDesc = """
><pool type='dir'>
> <name>guest_images_storage_pool</name>
> <uuid>8c79f996-cb2a-d24d-9822-ac7547ab2d01</uuid>
> <capacity unit='bytes'>4306780815</capacity>
> <allocation unit='bytes'>237457858</allocation>
> <available unit='bytes'>4069322956</available>
> <source>
> </source>
> <target>
><path>/disk1/guest_images</path>
><permissions>
> <mode>0755</mode>
> <owner>-1</owner>
> <group>-1</group>
></permissions>
> </target>
></pool>"""
>pool = conn.storagePoolDefineXML(xmlDesc, 0)
>
>
>This creates guest_images_storage_pool.xml in /etc/libvirt/storage. I
>assume this is the default path libvirt looks for any storage pools on the
>system
>
>The problem is that /etc is mapped to a ramdisk on my system. So after
>restart anything in there would be wiped.

Well, how do you expect applications to save configurations then?

You can compile libvirt with --sysconfdir=/something_else_than/etc, but
I would expect problems with more than libvirt if you have /etc on ramdisk...

>The path /disk1 maps to an actual hdd partition so ideally libvirt sould
>look for it's storage pools in there. I can't seem to make that happen.
>
>I tried adding a source path:
>
>  <source>
><dir path="/disk1/storage_pool"/>
>  </source>
>
>But that has no effect.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>Andrei
>
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