{"id":588,"date":"2011-09-12T18:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2012-10-17T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:25:07","slug":"xen-how-to-convert-an-image-based-guest-to-an-lvm-based-guest-howtoforge-linux-howtos-and-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Xen: How to Convert An Image-Based Guest To An LVM-Based Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This short article explains how you can move\/convert a Xen guest that uses disk images to LVM volumes. Virtual machines that use disk images are very slow and heavy on disk IO, therefore it&#8217;s often better to use LVM. Also, LVM-based guests are easier to back up (using LVM snapshots).<\/p>\n<p>I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/xen-how-to-convert-an-image-based-guest-to-an-lvm-based-guest\">Xen: How to Convert An Image-Based Guest To An LVM-Based Guest | HowtoForge &#8211; Linux Howtos and Tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short article explains how you can move\/convert a Xen guest that uses disk images to LVM volumes. Virtual machines that use disk images are very slow and heavy on disk IO, therefore it&#8217;s often better to use LVM. Also, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[104,96,89,82],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization-2","tag-howto","tag-lvm","tag-migration","tag-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7707,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}