So after installing OpenSuSE 11.2 on the server machine, I decided to take a step back nd decide how to manage all the current and future virtual machine.

For starters, I will use LVM for the disk space they use. I have created a template/minimal install of OpenSuse11.2 into a file based VM. The file disk it’s installed on is 1GB. gzipped, the file is only 250MB.

This will be the basis/starting point for all the new VMs. I have used dd to copy the virtual file based disk to an LVM volume on any size. Once that’s done, I can resize the partition to whatever size I want. (Note 1 on resizing) I can also make as many copies I want and run them as anything I want.