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2007 Mar 11
0
mounting using "xm block-attach" does not work; "special device /dev/xvda1 does not exist." error
...on there
titled:
Mounting images in Dom0 using the blktap driver.
It says there that you can mount an image by:
xm block-attach 0 tap:aio:<FILENAME> /dev/xvda1 w 0
mount /dev/xvda1 /mnt/disk <--- don''t use loop
driver
This option also appears in:
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide
I assume that this option is not only for Xen
unstable, but also for Xen releases. (Am I right?)
I tried the following:
I have xen 3.0.3 (from rpm packages) on Fedora Core 6
on i386.
I had created an domU image using the Virtual Machine
Manager, choosing the simple file option.
This image i...
2007 Dec 10
3
building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?
Hello,
When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or
less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the
advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup the Xen guest
directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM
partition as an entire disk with a partition table.
The advantages of this approach are:
1. I can add more LVM's