[fedora-virt] Need to read guests logs.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Nov 4 22:09:19 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 05:02:18PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:53:19 +0000
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > > This sigterms out, it cannot understand crypto-luks.
> > > The guest /home, swap, and / are luks encrypted  
> 
> Another possibility, which doesn't involve so much
> new and confusing stuff is to temporarily add the
> disk you want to look at as a 2nd disk in a virtual machine
> that is working properly, then boot up that machine and
> mount the 2nd disk as you normally would and poke
> around in it from there.

Which is what virt-rescue does, except you don't need the
second VM or to go through the trouble of reconfiguring
the other VM.

Rich.

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