Re: [Xen-users] want to recover data from dom-U in a failed raid array

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 07:02 +0200, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak wrote:
> Hi,
> if pvm, likely you just can mount it.
> if hvm, likely it has it's own MBR. either copy it out and run as domU 
> or loopmout it with offset (first partition will likely be at 1MB, if 
> there were more partitions you'll have to check where they start). I do 
> this when I want to boot domU directly on the metal :)

kpartx is a useful tool for loopback mounting raw images which have a
partition table in them, it'll create device mapper nodes for each
partition.

Ian.


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