[Xen-users] Re: Fedora - specialities - was: Re: Booting Jailtime Centos Image

[JÃn Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@xxxxxx> writes:
> Also a Fedora-speciality: They generally use a file as a full block
> device. In this block device, they don't directly put a filesystem, but
> they add a partition table in there, and in this again create partitions.
> 
> You can actually see that there is a partition table by looking at it
> with cfdisk <diskfilename>.
> But I also didn't yet succeed to mount this as a loopback device,
> because there simply is no device file on the system for these "inner"
> partitions. And I didn't find how to create one.

See

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC6#head-9c5408e750e8184aece3efe822be0ef6dd1871cd

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JÃn Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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