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I have a Windows 2000 domU running in an LVM partition. I need to move it to another host, but none of my other xen servers have lvm or free space to create an lvm. So I''d like to convert it to a sparse img file. The file system in the domU is ntfs. Can anyone suggest how to do this? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list

Hi All, I am trying to create an initrd for a VM which uses LVM as its root partition. I am running the mkinitrd command a dom0 that also uses LVM - dom0''s volume group is "XenHost" while the VM''s volume group is "VG_VM10" (not sure if that matters). I issue the mkinitrd command from a chroot''d environment so I get the right /lib/modules &

Hi All, I have several Xen virtual machines within logical volumes using LVM2. I did not use disk images for performance reasons. Conventionally, if I want to clone my virtual machines, I have to dd the LV to an image file. But this consumes a lot of time and harddisk space. So, instead of doing that, I want to use losetup and kpartx with my logical volumes, which contain operating systems of

Is there something special about filesystems mounted via the loop device, which prevents Samba from sharing them? I have a small LAN with several PCs on it. It has a few Windows machines, and a Linux machine running Mandrake 10 (kernel 2.6.3), which shares out its root ("/") read-only as "c". (Temporarily, for testing, it is shared with full write permissions, which I know

Hello, there is a "fdboot.img" floppy drive image included with FreeDOS ISO file. It's a floppy image file: root at debian64:~# file -s /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS BEta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x40, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes

I''ve been trying to migrate a win nt 4 machine to a xen domu for the past few months with no success. However, on my current attempt, the original hardware no longer boots, so I''m trying to resolve the issues with xen properly, or else take a long holiday... Anyway, the physical machine had a 9G drive (OS drive), a 147 G drive (not in use) and a 300G drive (all SCSI Ultra320 on

Hi, Ady wrote: > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-October/024526.html I still have it in my mailbox: ADY4UEFI.IMG in ADY4UEFI.ZIP. The test results are the same as with Didier's partition image. Wrapped in an ISO and presented as -cdrom it reboots in cycles. Presented as -hda it boots as naked disk image and as part of a GPT enhanced ISO 9660. > the wiki page needs

Thank you all for the help. I'm writing this summary message because of people requests. I haven't tried all of this. I just collected it and organized it. You've got a big storage. Now what? The short answer is: "Just connect it. It should work." I'll play safe by saying that the following applies to <10TB storage. Some people reported file systems of 80TB.

Hi, I've got a DAS DELL MD1000 with a bunch of SATA drives in RAID 5 configuration with total space of 5.4TB. This box is attached to a CentOS5 system (kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5). Any idea how to make this space usable? Is there a limit how big a partition can be? What is the work around? Is there a limit how big a file system ca be? I've tried to partition it but no matter how bug

Hi! I recently tried to mount a filesystem in RAID1 mode using loopback devices. I followed the instructions at [1]. Here''s exactly what I''ve done: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=raid1_0.img bs=1M count=500 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=raid1_1.img bs=1M count=500 $ mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 raid1_0.img raid1_1.img $ losetup /dev/loop0 raid1_0.img $ losetup /dev/loop1 raid1_1.img $ mount -t

Hi, This left me puzzled for a while: 22:29 borg:/ # losetup /dev/loop1 /.B.disk 22:29 borg:/ # mount /dev/loop1 /B mount: /dev/loop1: can''t read superblock 22:29 borg:/ # blkid /dev/loop1 /dev/loop1: UUID="e19fe89b-cde3-4ccc-bc70-b759a57bd1c9" UUID_SUB="f29c6218-d040-4546-a227-4dd2d2142817" TYPE="btrfs" 22:29 borg:/ # losetup -d /dev/loop1 22:29 borg:/ #

Hey, guys. I have a problem when installing syslinux 4.06, and I'd be grateful if someone could tell me how to solve the problem. My task - to install the bootloader on the virtual machine image. The image contains the MBR and the only partition with the file system ext4. The file system contains all the files for the guest OS. To install bootloader into the image of the guest OS, I use the

This miscellaneous patch adds bindings for: - ntfsfix - ntfsclone - ntfslabel and unifies filesystem label setting through a single API 'set-label' which replaces 'set-e2label' and is also able to set labels on NTFS using the ntfslabel program. 'ntfsfix' has been added as a possible way to fix RHBZ#797760. However I have not found a way to fully fix this bug. See

centos 6 failed to create entries under /dev for newly created loopback devices. Any one know why? and how to fix/workaround it? The steps to duplicate is pretty simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/deleteme bs=1M count=100 losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/deleteme fdisk /dev/loop0?? ## created partitions 1, 2, etc. fdisk -l /dev/loop0? ## confirmed that the partitions do exist mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0p1 ## failed

Hi all, we are running two servers with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server with Xen 3.2 and two dual-core CPUs: processor : {0-3} vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 65 model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 HE stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2613.394 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fpu :

How do I mount a partition that is in an image file? I have a file called centos.img that has 3 partitions in the file. I need to copy data to the third partition on that image file. I have seen things about a loop back device (which is fine) but then it talked about an offset parameter and I dont know what that is or more importantly what number to use. I hope I'm on the right track. How

Hi all. I''ve got a domU that exists in a sparse file image, I''d like to now use this on a physical partition (loopback performance issues). Is there an a easy way to do this ? Thanks Stuart _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Using CentOS 5.4 Xen Virtualization "stock install" Added rpmforge NTFS extension for mount command. Scenario: Have mirror dd'd off to "backup" unmounted LV contained Windows machine. Within the LVM volume are two NTFS partitions formatted by Win2k8. Issue: How can I mount this? I need to verify file existence and run batch of file compare checks. If I try to mount

Hi, I have Xen 3.3.1 dom0 on Debian with 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 kernel and I had to "xm destroy" my domU. Now when I try to start it again it fails like this: # xm list | grep n39 # # xm create -c /xen/conf/n39 Using config file "/xen/conf/n39". ROOT xen1:~> Error: Device 4 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup -r /dev/loop1 /xen/iso/amd64-netbsd-6.iso failed # losetup -a

I've replaced disks in a hardware RAID 1 with larger disks and enlarged the array. Now I have to find a way to tell LVM about the extra space. It seems there are two ways: 1. delete partition with fdisk and recreate a larger one. This is obviously a bit tricky if you do not want to lose data, I haven't investigated further yet. 2. create another partition on the disk, pvcreate another