Re: [Xen-API] [Solved] look into VHD VDI from Control Domain in XCP 1.6

[Alexandre Kouznetsov <alk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

I can confirm, I have successfully mounted partitions from my VHD VDI 
under Dom0. Thanks a lot!
El 08/01/13 12:07, George Shuklin escribiÃ:
> Ok, here important stuff. When VBD is plugged to dom0, it plugging not
> as 'normal' device (with udev attention), but as device in /dev/sm/backend.
Yes, that was important. Where have you learned that occult stuff?

> Here sample log (change uuids on you taste):
>
> xe vbd-create vm-uuid=53c3d878-b60b-48ec-aaac-73f7adf9ab3d
> vdi-uuid=5e2c31a5-1d1b-4abe-9892-1fa3bc47b532 device=6
> xe vbd-plug uuid=407eb3a6-919f-f605-0883-e12aaa91321d
>
> ls -la /dev/sm/backend/55ea20d2-8611-1121-9e9e-c26b35ac1852/
> ÐÑÐÐÐ 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     80 ÐÐÐ  8 21:57 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     60 ÐÐÐ 18 17:40 ..
> brw------- 1 root root 253, 0 ÐÐÐ  8 21:57
> 5e2c31a5-1d1b-4abe-9892-1fa3bc47b532
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    852 ÐÐÐ  8 21:57
> 5e2c31a5-1d1b-4abe-9892-1fa3bc47b532.attach_info
I have done the process as you described.
Got the same result as you, except that I don't have *.attach_info file, 
only the device file.
What is the relevance of device=6 under vbd-create command? Really did 
not knew what to put there, I have used device=autodetect, hope XCP is 
smart enough to clean up everything nicely after I unplug it.

> I have no idea why '55' uuid (and what it means), but
> 5e2c31a5-1d1b-4abe-9892-1fa3bc47b532 is block device after whole VHD
> tree joining/parsing and so on.
For reference, it seems like the new created device full path is:
/dev/sm/backend/<sr-uuid>/<vdi-uuid>
That "55..." must be your SR.


Reference (wide and confusing output, I know):

root@xcp47 ~]# xe vbd-create device=autodetect 
vm-uuid=ef5eedc4-cb8c-4d58-abf9-26179195ef62 
vdi-uuid=fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32c5db1fcce7
# Returns VBD uuid: b30fdfcd-e846-0ed4-6e63-fd9871ac2a65
# no /dev/sm at all, yet

root@xcp47 ~]# xe vbd-plug uuid=b30fdfcd-e846-0ed4-6e63-fd9871ac2a65
# Now visible /dev/sm/backend/<sr-uuid>/<vdi-uuid>

root@xcp47 ~]# fdisk -l 
/dev/sm/backend/cfc7419f-8b4e-8c51-d619-dfdee09841a2/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32c5db1fcce7
Disco 
/dev/sm/backend/cfc7419f-8b4e-8c51-d619-dfdee09841a2/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32c5db1fcce7: 
3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes


           Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin      Bloques  Id  Sistema
/dev/sm/backend/cfc7419f-8b4e-8c51-d619-dfdee09841a2/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32 
             1         200     1606468+  83  Linux
/dev/sm/backend/cfc7419f-8b4e-8c51-d619-dfdee09841a2/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32 
           201         391     1534207+  83  Linux
root@xcp47 ~]# kpartx -a 
/dev/sm/backend/cfc7419f-8b4e-8c51-d619-dfdee09841a2/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32c5db1fcce7
root@xcp47 ~]# mount /dev/mapper/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32c5db1fcce7p1 
/mnt/aa1
root@xcp47 ~]# mount /dev/mapper/fd118da1-c3dd-466b-8b27-32c5db1fcce7p1 
/mnt/aa2
[root@xcp47 ~]# ls /mnt/aa1
lost+found  xvdb1_flag
[root@xcp47 ~]# ls /mnt/aa2
lost+found  xvdb2_flag


--
Alexandre Kouznetsov


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