RE: [Xen-devel] What the most efficient way to access HVM guest'sfilesystem from dom0?

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> What the most efficient way to get a file from a Windows HVM guest from dom0
> when the guest is running? No need to change the file, just read it.
> 

If the DomU is running on top of LVM then an LVM snapshot which is then mounted 
in Dom0 using ntfs-3g is probably the best way.

If not running LVM (or a SAN that can take snapshots) then I think your only 
other choice is smbclient.

In theory, you could take a VSS snapshot in DomU, then mount that snapshot in 
Dom0 and read that, but I don't know if software exists to do that, or if it 
would work anyway.

James

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