Re: [Xen-users] Accessing individual partitions of a HVM guest

[Paul Muster <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27.12.2012 18:40, Andreas Hilboll wrote:

> I need to do some p2v migration of a very old SuSE server.
> Unfortunately, the kernel of that machine doesn't support running as xen
> domU, so I need to put the machine into a HVM domU.
> 
> When I set up the domU with
> 
>    disk = ['phy:/dev/vg_guest/worker1_disk,sda1,w']
> 
> then the domU doesn't boot because it says that no OS was found on the HDD.
> 
> Of course I could set up the domU with
> 
>    disk = ['phy:/dev/vg_guest/worker1_disk,sda,w']
> 
> but then how can I access the individual partitions of the domU's
> /dev/sda from the dom0?

kpartx


Greetings,

Paul

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