On 07/07/2012 07:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:16 AM, David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 07/06/2012 02:23 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>   By the way, if you skip using AHCI and just program the bios
>>>>>   for IDE, you don't even have to use an f6 disk to install XP.
>>>>>   No sign of drivers doing XP in yet.  Although the day will come.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Great letter.  Thank you!
>>>
>>> You didn't notice any performance issues with virtualized IDE versus SCSI?
>>
>>
>> IDE and SCSI emulation is not going to impress you on performance.  Using
>> virtio for disk access may improve the performance, and the Windows drivers
>> should be available here:
>
> David, I belive that Todd is using "dump" to back up the
> virtualization server, not the virtualization guests. The "dump"
> comman dwould be completely useless for a Windows partition, whether
> FAT32 or NTFS.
>
>> <http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers>
>
> Now, if you have to back up virtualized Windows *guest* hosts, that's
> a whole other set of adventures.
>

I am backing up the following:

$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-xx  946513204 286868552 611564524  32% /

KVM, VM's are all just files on this partition.