Fedora - specialities - was: Re: [Xen-users] Booting Jailtime Centos Image

[Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>]

Jensen Nathan A Capt USAFA/DFCS wrote:
> [...]
> 3.  I can use the python scripts to install a new instance of FC6
>       a.  I currently use a file as the back end for this VM.
>       b.  However, this file appears to be different from the Jailtime
> images -- I cannot mount them w/ "mount -o loop"

I also observed that.

Also a Fedora-speciality: They generally use a file as a full block
device. In this block device, they don't directly put a filesystem, but
they add a partition table in there, and in this again create partitions.

You can actually see that there is a partition table by looking at it
with cfdisk <diskfilename>.
But I also didn't yet succeed to mount this as a loopback device,
because there simply is no device file on the system for these "inner"
partitions. And I didn't find how to create one.

Here also, I didn't come further because a lack of time, but guess
fedora-xen List should know what to do.


(Still would be cool if you find a solution to post them here)

Henning

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