[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] lomount: handy for file-backed VBDs
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:10 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > This utility (from Qemu) might be useful to anyone who has multiple > > partitions > > on a file-backed VBD and wants occasionally to mount them in dom0. > > > > http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu/utilities/QEMU-HD-Mounter/lomount/ > > > > You can tell it what partition to mount out of the file and it sorts out > > the > > offsets, etc. by parsing the partition table. This allows you to get > > around > > the loop driver's lack of support for partitioning. > > There's also the NASA's enhanced loopback device patch: > > ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback/readme.txt > > This should arguably be part of our default dom0 build. There's also kpartx which just uses device-mapper to create devices for each of the partitions on a loopdev. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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