Re: [Xen-devel] lomount: handy for file-backed VBDs

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hey all,
> 
> This utility (from Qemu) might be useful to anyone who has multiple 
> partitions 
> on a file-backed VBD and wants occasionally to mount them in dom0.
> 
> http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu/utilities/QEMU-HD-Mounter/lomount/
> 
> You can tell it what partition to mount out of the file and it sorts out the 
> offsets, etc. by parsing the partition table.  This allows you to get around 
> the loop driver's lack of support for partitioning.

There's also the NASA's enhanced loopback device patch:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback/readme.txt

This should arguably be part of our default dom0 build.

Ian


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