Re: [Xen-devel] Updated version of VM-Tools and libxen available

[Mark Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In Linux you can bind a file to a block device using:

losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/file

Where loop0 is an unbound loop device (most Linux installs should have at 
least loop0, loop1 ... loop 7).

You can then specify /dev/loop0 as the device to export to the domain.

When you're done, use losetup -d /dev/loop0 to remove the binding and free 
that device.

HTH
Mark

On Monday 11 April 2005 15:47, aq wrote:
> Thank you all for the guidance on how to use vm-tools. That really
> help, since its documentation still lag behind development.
>
> I have a question: as I understand, at the moment vm-tools doesnt
> support file backed device, but only real block device? That means if
> I want to try out this tool suite, I must (for ex.) run xenU on real
> disk partitions?
>
> Thank you,
> aq
>
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