The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 13:58:20 UTC 2013


On 17.04.2013 10:41, Frank Murphy wrote:
> I have 5 physical disks, on which the virt-images are stored.

Probably you have 5 physical disks *partitions* *mounted* on a storage
*pool* *directory* defaulting to "/var/lib/libvirt/images", right?

> What I have found is for whatever reason, I need to put a new
> disk or disk-controller card into the host machine.
> 
> It can changes the order of the disks as seen by the host.
> So vm's may not start as the physical disk they are on eg: /dev/sdd
> is now /dev/sdf or or /dev/sdc
> 
> What can I do to protect myself from this in the future.

Mount points are the mount points, regardless of the disks layout. :)

poma


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