Re: [Xen-devel] fdisk hard drive image

[Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Currently, i use a partition image to run my XenU (/dev/hda2) and "fdisk
> -l" return nothing and can't open /dev/hda .

So your config file looks like:
disk = ['file:/path/to/file,hda2,w']

Then in the guest you run:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda

And get "can't open /dev/hda"?

That's to be expected, since you're using a Xen "virtual" partition and there 
isn't a real hda behind it.

> I want to use a full hard drive image (not partition image) from my Xen0
> as hda in my XenU. I want to be able to run fdisk on hda in my XenU to
> list and regenerate partitions.

Should work as far as I know.

> I tried with this (/img is my hard drive image):
>
> disk = ['/img,hda,w']

This should be:
disk = ['file:/img,hda,w']

otherwise the tools don't know what kind of backing you want for the VBD.

> disk = ['phy:loop3,hda,w'], loop3 is /img attached to /dev/loop3 by
> losetup.

That should just work if the setup of /dev/loop3 worked OK.  Can you 
mount /dev/loop3 in dom0 OK?

Can you please post what errors you're getting from these attempts?

Cheers,
Mark

> Is it possible ?
> Can anyone help me ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regard,
>
>     Gonéri Le Bouder
>
>
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