Image files and logical volumes

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Image files and logical volumes are virtualized as virtio block devices.

To provide image files as virtual block devices for a virtual server:
  1. Create and initialize the image files
  2. Make the image files accessible for the virtual server.
  3. Configure the image files as virtual block devices.

    You configure devices that are to be defined with the virtual server in its domain configuration-XML file. You can also define devices in a separate device configuration-XML file. Such devices can be attached to an already defined virtual server.

    See Configuring devices and Configuring an image file as storage device.