RE: [Xen-users] Mounting RHEL 4 virtual machine disks (dd/mount -oloop)

["Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Kraska, Joe A (US SSA) wrote:
> > > Can someone jog my memory? What's the magic incantation?
> > modprobe loop ? :)
> Well. That was helpful... but didn't solve the problem.
...

> [root@blade15 xen-rh64-gold]# mount -o loop -t ext3 hda mnt
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
you want

losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/hda

then kpartx -av /dev/loop1

(the partitions are in /dev/mapper/loop1px)

then mount /dev/mapper/loop1p2 /mnt

or something like that

...

> The vm installed into "had" is configured with the default
> partitioning mechanism, which involves LVM.
LVM is different... if the above doesn't work, try running vgscan/lvscan 
after you losetup.

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