[Fedora-xen] need advices on how to install domU with xenguest-install
Stephen C. Tweedie
sct at redhat.com
Tue Apr 11 15:41:58 UTC 2006
Hi,
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:44 -0400, Denis Forveille wrote:
> This is what I'm doing:
> - on dom0, create one lvg per domU (/dev/vg/domU1,/dev/vg/domU2,etc..)
> - format the lvg with "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/vg/domU1"
The domU is expecting a *disk* image, including partitioning
information, not just a single filesystem.
> Anaconda starts fine, but I always get a message saying that the file
> system is not valid and it has to be reinitialised...
Right, it can't find the partition table so it creates a fresh one.
> The goals is to be able later to mount that lvg and copy files from/to
> it (when the associated domU is down of course...) and later to clone it
> to create other domUs from it..
You can use "lomount" to mount a single partition from within the disk
image (or manually use losetup or dmsetup to set a mapping to the
partition.)
--Stephen
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