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Re: [Xen-users] Howto access the guest filesystem under LVM ?

I don't know virt-install but maybe the file is partitioned? Check this
with

fdisk -l -u my-image.img

and check the start sector of desired partition. Then mount with

mount -o loop,offset=XXXXX my-image.img /mnt

XXXXX = number of start sector multiplied with 512
e.g. start sector = 63 -> XXXXX = 63 * 512 = 32256

Goran

Am Sonntag, den 17.06.2007, 21:04 +0200 schrieb Pascal:
> 
> > > I have created a guest using virt-install.
> > > On the dom0 we have created a LogicalVolume and used it to install the 
> > > guest
> > > 
> > > We need to copy all the contents of the guest, so we'd like to access 
> > > the guest filesystem from dom0
> > > 
> > > Tried something like :
> > > mount -o loop /dev/xenvps/mylv /mnt
> > > 
> > > But it doesn't work
> > >     
> > 
> > Omit "-o loop". /dev/xenvps/mylv is a (symlink-to) a real block device
> > file, so there's no need for loop.
> > 
> > Keep in mind that having it mounted R/W in guest and R/W or R/O in dom0
> > at the same time is asking for trouble.
> > 
> >   
> It doesn't work
> 
> # mount /dev/mapper/xenvps-centos45 /mnt/
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> Pascal
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