[wellylug] virtual windows

David Harrison david.harrison at stress-free.co.nz
Tue Dec 15 23:34:27 NZDT 2009


With VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox you can setup shared folders which
would achieve what you are after (I think).
e.g. Your Windows VM would be able to (semi-directly) access the XFS Raid0
partition on the VMWare/VirtualBox host.

The virtualisation tools attach shared folders as local disk mounts in
Windows, so performance is pretty solid.

However, you may find sharing the partition on the network via Samba is the
most flexible long-term option.


David



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus at sitharus.com>wrote:

>
> On 15/12/2009, at 5:27 PM, Xav Paice wrote:
>
> > ----- "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.
>
> Really? I doubt that a lot. The performance penalty of a disk image vs a
> raw LVM partition is quite noticeable. Disk images are very convenient for
> desktop virtualisation software as they can be easily moved, but XenServer
> and VMWare ESX use the disk directly.
>
> --
> Phillip Hutchings
> sitharus at sitharus.com
>
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