<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just use sed and some bashing : <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>virsh shutdown</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>virsh edit XXXXX</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sed -> /var/lib/nova/instances -> /your/new/dir<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd /var/lib/nova/instances/</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sed every libvirt.xml file</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>qemu img-convert -> /var/lib/nova/instances/_base/XXXX -f qcow2 -O /your/new/dir<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cp /var/lib/nova/instances/instance-XXX/disk /your/new/dir</div><div>make a prayer then :</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>virsh start everything</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>Le 15 mai 2013 à 15:36, "Mac Innes, Kiall" <<a href="mailto:kiall@hp.com">kiall@hp.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 15/05/13 14:22, Daniel Ellison wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On May 15, 2013, at 9:08 AM, "Mac Innes, Kiall" <<a href="mailto:kiall@hp.com">kiall@hp.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Personally, I would make use of a bind mount[1] rather than trying to relocate..<br><br>A bind mount is just like a symlink, with the exception of AppArmor (and I presume SELinux) will handle it "correctly"..<br></blockquote>Ok, so I would move the entire /var/lib/nova directory to /home/storage, then do a bind mount back to /var/lib/nova? And that would require no config changes at all. Nice! Thanks for the tip, Kiall.<br><br>Regards,<br>Daniel<br></blockquote>Yup - Or, you could just bind mount /var/lib/nova/instances, leaving the<br>rest on the local disks (I have *no clue* if Nova will handle that<br>nicely.. But bind mounts certainly will ;))<br><br>I use them pretty heavily inside instances to transparently re-locate<br>data (e.g. MySQL DB's, /var/log etc) the the instances second disk.<br>Doing this with a symlink, or by updating my.cnf would require<br>additional AppArmor config changes for the relocation to work. Using a<br>bind mount get's past this issue..<br><br>Anyway - As always, read up and experiment before deciding to go to<br>production!<br><br>Thanks,<br>Kiall<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>