Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Johnny Tan wrote: > > > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could > > follow more or > > > less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the > > > advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup > > the Xen guest > > > directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM > > > partition as an entire disk with a partition table. > > > > I might be missing something, but that link seems to talk > > about FAI and doesn't mention xen. I'm interested in seeing > > how it can install on the LVM partition but the OS doesn't > > see it as an entire disk with a partition table. What does > > "fdisk -l" show, then? > > Here is a good link: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide > > The Xen domU or HVM will treat the partition as a whole disk, so > that means MBR and stuff, but you can mount it on dom0 as such: > > # fdisk -l -u /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1 > > Disk /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1: 218.2 GB, 218233831424 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders, total 426237952 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End > Blocks Id System > /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1p1 128 426220514 > 213110193+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > # mount -t ntfs -o loop,offset=128 /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1 /mnt > > That will create an auto-loop mount of the partition at sector > offset 128. Oops, offset is in bytes not sectors, so it would be offset 65536 in my case (sector * 512). -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos