On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:58:15PM +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Henning Sprang wrote:
> >On 1/15/07, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>but I seem to need individual partition images for my
> >>setup, since I don't have VT or HVM capable CPU's to work with.
> >
> >I somehow oversaw this: why do you think you need a specific
> >partitioning style because of using pv instead of hvm?
> >Or is this a xenman-specific thing?
> How can I get the disk and swap partitions onto the file image or LVM
> image, and access them from Dom0 when setting things up or doing
> recovery options, without having a VT or HVM capable system and booting
> from a CD or network?
If you have a disk image which contains a nested partition table, then
the 'lomount' tool makes it easy to access individual partiitons. If
you further have LVM in the guest, then the kpartx tools can be used.
For example, I have /dev/HostVG/XenGuest1 which I map through to a
guest as /dev/xvda. In the guest I partitioned this into 2 paritiions,
one for /, and one for /boot. If I want to access /boot directly from
the host, I can use:
lomount -diskimage /dev/HostVG/XenGuest1 -partition 2 /mnt/
Dan.
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