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Adding an alternative storage pool

by mandel on January 10th, 2012

This is here for me to remember the next time I need to do this task:

  1. Copy the default pool definition:

    virsh pool-dumpxml default > pool.xml

  2. edit pool.xml changing the following vars:

    <pool type='dir'>
  <name>{$name}</name>
  <uuid>{$id}</uuid>
  <capacity>43544694784</capacity>
  <allocation>30412328960</allocation>
  <available>13132365824</available>
  <source>
  </source>
  <target>
    <path>{$path}</path>
    <permissions>
      <mode>0700</mode>
      <owner>-1</owner>
      <group>-1</group>
    </permissions>
  </target>
</pool>
  3. virsh pool-create pool.xml
  4. virsh pool-refresh name

Doing the above you can add a new pool, for example one that is not in you ssd.

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