Installation guide

disk = [ "file:/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel5_64_fv.dsk,hda,w",
"tap:aio:/var/lib/libvirt/images/UserStorage1.dsk,xvda,w",
"tap:aio:/var/lib/libvirt/images/UserStorage2.dsk,xvdb,w" ]
Verify the partitions have been created and are available.
# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 10485760 hda
3 1 104391 hda1
3 2 10377990 hda2
202 0 64000 xvda
202 1 64000 xvdb
253 0 8257536 dm-0
253 1 2031616 dm-1
In the above output you can see the partition or device “ xvdb” is available to the system.
Mount the new devices and disks to local mount points and update the /etc/fstab inside the guest
to mount the devices and partitions at boot time.
# mkdir /mnt/pvdisk_xvda
# mkdir /mnt/pvdisk_xvdb
# mount /dev/xvda /mnt/pvdisk_xvda
# mount /dev/xvdb /mnt/pvdisk_xvdb
# df /mnt
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda 64000 15 63985 1% /mnt/pvdisk_xvda
/dev/xvdb 64000 15 63985 1% /mnt/pvdisk_xvdb
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