Re: [Xen-users] Accessing individual partitions of a HVM guest

[Andreas Hilboll <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I need to do some p2v migration of a very old SuSE server.
>> Unfortunately, the kernel of that machine doesn't support running as xen
>> domU, so I need to put the machine into a HVM domU.
>>
>> When I set up the domU with
>>
>>    disk = ['phy:/dev/vg_guest/worker1_disk,sda1,w']
>>
>> then the domU doesn't boot because it says that no OS was found on the HDD.
>>
>> Of course I could set up the domU with
>>
>>    disk = ['phy:/dev/vg_guest/worker1_disk,sda,w']
>>
>> but then how can I access the individual partitions of the domU's
>> /dev/sda from the dom0?
> 
> kpartx

Thanks, guys, works like a charm :)

Cheers, Andreas.


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