[wellylug] virtual windows

[Xav Paice]

----- "Jethro Carr" <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:04 +1300, E Chalaron wrote:
> > A quick question :
> > Does a virtualised windows session can access let's say a XFS Raid0
> > filesystem ?
> 
> 
> Not directly, virtualisation doesn't provide filesystem
> interpretation,
> the guest OS has to be able to understand the filesystem type in
> order
> to read it.
> 
> 
> In order to read XFS from a Windows guest, you would have to mount
> the
> XFS filesystem on the host and share via SMB to the guest.
> 

or you could just store a disk image file in qcow or vmdk, or whatever format, on that filesystem.

Most virtualisation vendors now are agreeing that it's better to use disk images rather than raw logical volumes or LUNs for guests so that the tools available for hypervisors can work, and storage can be shared.