Re: [Xen-users] Re: Accessing an LV domU

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

If you are using LVM inside of LVM, then no, there is no way
to read the LVM-on-LVM without booting the guest, as far as I know.
Steve


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Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Simone wrote:

> I guess I am trying to do something unusual :)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Simone
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Simone <dezmodue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I am experiencing with xen on centos5 and so far everything is going well,
> > I am really pleased. The domU have a dedicated LV (/dev/vg1/xenVM1,
> > /dev/vg1/xenVM2 etc) and the guest OS is Centos4. At guest install time I
> > have choosen to use LVM so that also inside the guest I have /dev/vg0/root,
> > /dev/vg0/tmp etc. Is there a way to mount and edit the guest filesystem to
> > customize files etc?
> > The idea would be to have a guest template that can be cloned and then
> > edited to generate new VMs.
> >
> > Thanks, have a good weekend
> >
> > Simone
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