AW: [Xen-users] Xen with LVM

["Martin Mrvka" <mmrvka@xxxxxx>]

Hi robin,

your disk image is not a partition which can be mounted directly. Actually it 
holds the complete disk structure including the lvm.

I also ran into the same problem and found no other solution than getting help 
from vmware.

Take a look at this article:
http://thalreit.dyndns.org/twiki/bin/view/UsingUNIX/RecoveryWithVmware#Mount_virtual_disk_image

1) you need to get the vmware-loop command which can be obtained by the free 
vmware server
2) you need a kernel which supports nbd (centos5 does)


Cheers,

Martin


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Von: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von IDAGroup - 
R.W.Muller
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2007 21:35
An: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [Xen-users] Xen with LVM

Ok, I guess it has not really something to do with LVM, cause I just installed 
a (working!)
Centos5 guest into a (also working) Centos5 dom0 as imagefile. When I try to 
mount the image
I get:

[root@serv106 ~]# mount -o loop /disk.img /mnt/loop/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

So, very similar to the error before (actually the same). What is wrong with my 
guest installation
that those are booting fine, but are not mountable?

Thanks for any help here,
Robin



IDAGroup - R.W.Muller wrote: 
Hello everybody, new in the Country (coming from Switzerland) and new to Xen as 
well :)

I tried to install the first CentOS 5.0 - XEN -LVM machine but struggle 
somehow. I followed
the explanations of Paul, but CentOS 5 seems to have a problem with mounting 
the LVM after installation:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-07/msg00777.html

When I create a new lv named centos5 and do a  mke2fs /dev/vm-data/centos5
I can easily mount the "drive" with mount /dev/vm-data/centos5 /mnt/centos5. I 
unmounted centos5 then
and started the virt-install. Said for path /dev/vm-data/centos5 and no 
graphics. Pretty soon the installer
comes up with "/dev/xvda currently has a loop partition layout.  To use this 
disk for the installation of CentOS, it must be re-initialized.."
I allow this but create my own partitioning (one Ext3 partition mounted as / 
with full lv size).
Right after this step, the lv is no longer mountable and when checking the 
"drive" says wrong superblock.

Is there an issue with LVM on Centos5, or did I do something wrong? ....tried 
everythign for several hours now :/

[root@serv106 ~]# rpm -qa |grep lvm
lvm2-2.02.16-3.el5
system-config-lvm-1.0.22-1.0.el5

I was also considering using file based domU's but still not sure if they would 
give enough performance for a webhosting (LAMP) server.

Any help, hint or even URL that leads to an actual working howto is greatly 
appreciated!

Thank you so much and have a great day now!
Robin

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