One VM, Multiple Images in Multiple Repositories

Am trying to configure my guests so that various mount points are on different repositories. This is so that, for example, the swapfile isn't on a replicated ISCSI target creating big deltas to the DR site, but there are a whole bunch of reasons why one would want to have this flexibility. To clarify, a happy machine would look like this:
LUN1: Replicated ISCSI target
Mount Points: /
LUN2: Non-replicated ISCSI target
Mount Points: /var/log, /tmp, /u01, /uo2, swap, etc. (other replication methods of course for DB but that's not a question for here)
This is actually what we do for our XenServer implementation, and it works extremely well.
Anyhow, tech note 794198.1 talks about how to move existing resources around to different repositories, but I can't find a way to do that at the individual disk image level. I can't import a shared disk image, either. In addition to deleting the image file (and then discovering that Oracle VM Mangler didn't have a way to import it), I've tried symlinking the disk image and also editing the vm.cfg file directly, and neither option worked. Symlinking left the VM in a non-bootable and highly informative "Exception: null" state, and editing the vm.cfg file causes the machine to first "Exception: null" and then boot anyway but with the edited vm.cfg file re-written with the reference to the moved image removed.
This is pretty basic functionality so I'm sure it's in here somewhere. But where?

That's really surprising. Is it something that can be done at the CLI level, or do we have to wait for the VI integration before this functionality (which as I mentioned is offered by the competition) is put into place?

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