Re: [Xen-users] Domain management GUI for RHEL 4

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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:
>   
Thanks for the pointer. Hmm. The tool doesn't sem to be well documented. 
In fact, the RPM's for RedHat/CentOS don't have the docs at all. There's 
an option to compile them as part of the "-devel" RPM, but it didn't 
work well with 3.0.3.
If I submit some patches to separate out most of the docs into a "-docs" 
RPM, I wonder what are its odds of being accepted?

>  lomount -diskimage /dev/HostVG/XenGuest1 -partition 2 /mnt/
>
> Dan.
>   
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