Hello, Thanks a lot!
Look under "Accessing guest disk image"
I did so; It could be that there is a slight error in that wiki page, or that something in my configuration is a bit different. I tried to mount an image which was installed on a regular file. It was slightly different than the wiki; any case I did manage to solve it ; down below is what problem I had and how it was solved, so that others may benefit from it (and maybe the wiki should be changed, I really do not know). The "Accessing guest disk image" says: "Note that this only works for block devices, not for images installed on regular files. To use file images, you'll need to set up a loopback device for the file first: # losetup -f /dev/loop0 # losetup /dev/loop0 /xen/images/MyImagefile.img # kpartx -av /dev/loop0 add map loop0p1 : 0 208782 linear /dev/loop0 63 add map loop0p2 : 0 12370050 linear /dev/loop0 208845 In this case we have added an image formatted as a default Fedora install, so it has two partitions: one /boot, and one LVM volume containing everything else. They are accessible under /dev/mapper: # ls -l /dev/mapper/ | grep guest1" ***In my case***, ls -l /dev/mapper/ does ***NOT*** contain guest1; ls -l /dev/mapper/ shows: crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 Mar 17 11:43 control brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Mar 17 13:22 loop0p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 Mar 17 13:22 loop0p2 But continuing with mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/boot/ instead: mount /dev/mapper/guest1p1 /mnt/boot/ (as in the Wiki) did the job. The same is for kpartx: kpartx -a /dev/mapper/loop0p2 and then :vgscan **instead of:** kpartx -a /dev/xen/guest1 and then :vgscan (as in the wiki) did the job. Regards, DS On 3/16/07, Andrew Cathrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 18:47 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote: Hello, I had created an image file with virt-install under Fedora 6 with something like: virt-install -n guset2 -r 256 -s 4 -f /var/lib/xen/images/guest2/guest2File -l ftp://mirrors.hpcf.upr.edu/pub/Mirrors/redhat/download.fedora.redhat.com/6/i386/os-p --nographics Is there a way to mount Read-Write or Read-Only this file (/var/lib/xen/images/guest2/guest2File) from within dom0 ? http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC6 Look under "Accessing guest disk image" Regards , DS --Fedora-xen mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen -- Andrew Cathrow Red Hat, Inc. (678) 733 0452 - Mobile (404) 437 6178 - Home Office [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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