Mailinglist Archive: vhostmd (42 mails)

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This adds some documentation to the README about how you can
configure vhostmd in a guest using 'virsh edit'.

Rich.

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> From 76defee64c46d0fa88c83f00cdeca79b06514b23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:51:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Document how to configure a domain with 'virsh edit'

---
 README |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 13a3449..2755e4f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -255,6 +255,18 @@ libvirt would be the preferred tool, e.g.
   virsh attach-disk <vm> /path/to/metrics/disk xvdd --driver tap
     --subdriver aio --type disk --mode readonly
 
+You can also edit the configuration of a domain using
+'virsh edit guestname' and add the following clause into the <devices>
+section:
+
+  <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+    <source dev='/dev/shm/vhostmd0'/>
+    <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>
+    <readonly/>
+  </disk>
+
+(Note: Change target dev and bus as appropriate for the domain)
+
 
 Guest Tool/Library for Accessing Metrics Data
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