Hi, On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:44 -0400, Denis Forveille wrote: > This is what I'm doing: > - on dom0, create one lvg per domU (/dev/vg/domU1,/dev/vg/domU2,etc..) > - format the lvg with "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/vg/domU1" The domU is expecting a *disk* image, including partitioning information, not just a single filesystem. > Anaconda starts fine, but I always get a message saying that the file > system is not valid and it has to be reinitialised... Right, it can't find the partition table so it creates a fresh one. > The goals is to be able later to mount that lvg and copy files from/to > it (when the associated domU is down of course...) and later to clone it > to create other domUs from it.. You can use "lomount" to mount a single partition from within the disk image (or manually use losetup or dmsetup to set a mapping to the partition.) --Stephen
