Comments on: VM Encapsulation http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/vm-encapsulation/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:54:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: RHEV virtual disks are buried in LVM volumes - not regular files as Red Hat claims | VCritical http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/vm-encapsulation/#comment-10926 RHEV virtual disks are buried in LVM volumes - not regular files as Red Hat claims | VCritical Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:08:43 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=699#comment-10926 [...] virtual disks are actually stored in cryptically named logical volumes – no encapsulation or portability [...] [...] virtual disks are actually stored in cryptically named logical volumes – no encapsulation or portability [...]

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/vm-encapsulation/#comment-369 Eric Gray Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:49:27 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=699#comment-369 Well said, Marcel. Well said, Marcel.

]]> By: Marcel http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/vm-encapsulation/#comment-362 Marcel Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:09:48 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=699#comment-362 At the MCT EMEA Summit in Prague (January this year) Ronald Beekelaar had a "solution" for this as well. I cannot download his presentation yet but I think he's made something which does the XML symlink thing without having to do this yourself. As the previous commenter noted, it's another small but very annoying thing about Hyper-V. If you're coming from Virtual Server 2005 you won't notice it, but if you've got experience with VMware of Xen then you're looking at this type of thing with disbelief; how could they have forgotten this? At the MCT EMEA Summit in Prague (January this year) Ronald Beekelaar had a “solution” for this as well. I cannot download his presentation yet but I think he’s made something which does the XML symlink thing without having to do this yourself.

As the previous commenter noted, it’s another small but very annoying thing about Hyper-V. If you’re coming from Virtual Server 2005 you won’t notice it, but if you’ve got experience with VMware of Xen then you’re looking at this type of thing with disbelief; how could they have forgotten this?

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/vm-encapsulation/#comment-358 Eric Gray Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:12:22 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=699#comment-358 Shawn, thanks for reading. That's not a bad idea. Shawn, thanks for reading. That’s not a bad idea.

]]> By: Shawn http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/vm-encapsulation/#comment-354 Shawn Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:21:46 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=699#comment-354 Always love reading these little tidbits. You should compile them all together into a new site called Hyper-V Annoyances. :) Always love reading these little tidbits.

You should compile them all together into a new site called Hyper-V Annoyances.

:)

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