[PVE-User] Question about swap and SAN

Markus Edholm markus at mefixit.se
Fri Sep 6 22:28:24 CEST 2013


Jan Peterson skrev 2013-09-06 07:29:
> On 9/5/2013 9:03 AM, Markus Edholm wrote:
>> Is there any way to have all virtual machines use swaparea on mainserver
>> instead of virtual swap inside raw/qcow file?
> Are you sure you want to do this?  You will not be able to live migrate
> your VM to a different host unless the swap area is on shared storage.
>
> If you really want to do this, you can set up another area on local disk
> and allocate a second disk to the guest from that volume.  When you
> install the OS on the guest, put the swap device on this second virtual
> drive.
>
>     -jan-
Ok, I understand, thanks
/markus



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