Re: [Xen-users] Howto access the guest filesystem under LVM ?

[Marcin Owsiany <marcin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:17:58PM +0200, Pascal wrote:
> I have created a guest using virt-install.
> On the dom0 we have created a LogicalVolume and used it to install the guest
> 
> We need to copy all the contents of the guest, so we'd like to access 
> the guest filesystem from dom0
> 
> Tried something like :
> mount -o loop /dev/xenvps/mylv /mnt
> 
> But it doesn't work

Omit "-o loop". /dev/xenvps/mylv is a (symlink-to) a real block device
file, so there's no need for loop.

Keep in mind that having it mounted R/W in guest and R/W or R/O in dom0
at the same time is asking for trouble.

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