On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:28:51PM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > Hello NetBSD administrators > > I would like to share a working NetBSD guest setup that allows to mount > its FFS or even EXT2FS virtual disk/partition right from the dom0, > possibly being GNU/Linux. The guest has to be shut down first, of > course. This can be useful for maintenance of otherwise fast generation > of guest templates. > > The former trick (FFS on xbd0a), is to enable `CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE` on > the dom0 Linux kernel configuration and then mount the guest file-system > with `mount -t ufs -o loop,ufstype=44bsd guest.ffs`. > > The latter trick (EXT2FS on xbd0d) is simply to format the virtual > partition from the dom0 right before setting up the guest manually. > > The whole process is described here: > http://doc.nethence.com/xen/guest-netbsd
Thanks for this, it is super helpful! > > pierre-philipp -- Chris Humphries <[email protected]> 5223 9548 E1DE DE87 F509 1888 8141 8451 6338 DD29
