On 11/01/2009 10:51 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 11/01/2009 08:37 AM, Brett Worth wrote: >> Christopher G. Stach II wrote: >> >>>> I'd recommend not using LVM inside the images because if you just have >>>> a raw disk image in >>>> there with regular partitions you can mount it on dom0 (with losetup) >>>> for maintenance. I >>>> don't think that would be possible with LVM. >>>> >>> But it is. >>> >> >> I guess that's informative so why don't I feel informed? :-) >> >> OK. I'll bite. How? > using the procedure described at > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-How_To_troubleshoot_Red_Hat_Virtualization-Accessing_data_on_guest_disk_image.html It should be mentioned that it's important not to accept the default volume group name when using LVM as that will lead to a collision in a case such as this where the VG name of both host and guest might end up beeing "VolGroup00". I hope RHEL/Centos 6 chooses better defaults based on the hostname for example. Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
