in creating multiple DomU's, i create a 'template' DomU, popluate & configure it as desired, then 'dd' it to new DomUs. the 'template' is autoyast configured, with partitioning, /dev/xvda mount=/boot label="BOOT" fs=ext3 vg0 lv_swap mount=swap label="SWAP" fs=swap lv_root mount=/ label="ROOT" fs=ext3 after boot, @ DomU, df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg0-lv_root 3.6G 1.9G 1.5G 57% / udev 275M 82k 275M 1% /dev /dev/xvda1 104M 20M 79M 20% /boot vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg0 1 2 0 wz--n- 3.88G 64.00M lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert lv_root vg0 -wi-ao 3.31G lv_swap vg0 -wi-ao 512.00M after dd-ing this 'template'to multiple DomUs, @ Dom0, i get vgs WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg0: VKj8x5-ZKxX-9Nyv-TOAj-LT00-aNiT-t08maO (created here) takes precedence over zGm1oc-7Xu9-3A5i-jY7V-o8We-TJu6-z6RiMx WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg0: VKj8x5-ZKxX-9Nyv-TOAj-LT00-aNiT-t08maO (created here) takes precedence over zGm1oc-7Xu9-3A5i-jY7V-o8We-TJu6-z6RiMx WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg0: Existing VKj8x5-ZKxX-9Nyv-TOAj-LT00-aNiT-t08maO (created here) takes precedence over zGm1oc-7Xu9-3A5i-jY7V-o8We-TJu6-z6RiMx Couldn't find device with uuid 'z9TpKD-MQwQ-l5aB-wInc-DnMb-E4Lc-yMfd8s'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'z9TpKD-MQwQ-l5aB-wInc-DnMb-E4Lc-yMfd8s'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0. Volume group "vg0" not found WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg0: VKj8x5-ZKxX-9Nyv-TOAj-LT00-aNiT-t08maO (created here) takes precedence over zGm1oc-7Xu9-3A5i-jY7V-o8We-TJu6-z6RiMx Couldn't find device with uuid 'XvoxVH-Hnmj-PtIW-qgDK-C0sI-6aN0-7qL3eQ'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'XvoxVH-Hnmj-PtIW-qgDK-C0sI-6aN0-7qL3eQ'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0. Volume group "vg0" not found WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg0: VKj8x5-ZKxX-9Nyv-TOAj-LT00-aNiT-t08maO (created here) takes precedence over zGm1oc-7Xu9-3A5i-jY7V-o8We-TJu6-z6RiMx VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree VG_Dom0 1 1 0 wz--n- 11.97G 0 VG_DomU 1 8 0 wz--n- 220.22G 163.22G VG_Swap 1 1 0 wz--n- 480.00M 0 it looks like UUID conflicts between DomUs' VGs -- namely, multiple instances of the VG=vg0, one in each DomU. i thought that DomUs' partitioning etc would be isolated from one another; apparently not, in that Dom0 seems to (need to?) be aware of the DomU VGs' name/UUID. what do i need to do to prevent these VG name/UUID conflicts? there's a Fedora bug that seems related, "Bug 207470 - Need ability to handle duplicate VG names for Xen" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207470 is this the same problem? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+help@opensuse.org