I have recently been working on virtualizing Windows and Linux machines using Xen. A few things popped up along the way and a bit of research was done to make things work properly, these are some of the notes I took.

Depending on the requirements, LVM may make sense for your implementation. One particular advantage is LVM snapshots for backups.

A setup I am working on now consists of 4 systems with a dedicated LVM device, and an lvm based mount point for file based VMs.
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