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Hi everyone! I''ve been reading this list for a while and I''m thinking that the best way to do backups is using LVM snapshots as discussed here several times. The problem is that when i use a LVM logical volume as windows disk, windows writes the partition table onto the LV so the LV itself is not a partition - it''s a whole disk. lvm/device-mapper does not create the

I''ve been using lvm under centos to create the backing store for domUs and although the performance seems acceptable it has some shortcomings. The biggest of which is the LVM bug which prevents me from removing an lv (it says it is still mounted and it definitely isnt). I thought this was just a centos bug but it appears to be evident in debian and ubuntu too and I really can''t

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

Hello, I''m not able to mount a HPFS/NTFS domU partition. My system: dom0 is on a debian (Lenny) machine, using xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386 Xen Hypervisor. domU is a Windows XP machine, that works well. My target is to mount file system domU machine (when domU is not active). In my domU configuration file I have: disk = [''phy:/dev/virtual_machines/xp_disk,hda,w'',

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

Hi guys. DomU config disk = [ ''phy:/dev/xen00/debian5-base,sda1,w'', ''phy:/dev/xen00/debian5-swap,sda2,w'', ] ----------------------- mkswap /dev/xen00/debian5-swap But in domU in booting: Activating swap...failed. What wrong? -- Best Regards, alex.faq8@gmail.com

Adding ntfscat_i command for downloading files based on their inode number. This allows the dowload of files unaccessible otherwise from a NTFS guest disk image. Signed-off-by: Matteo Cafasso <noxdafox@gmail.com> --- daemon/ntfs.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ generator/actions.ml | 15 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 77 insertions(+) diff --git

On 22/02/16 17:26, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:22:23PM +0200, Matteo Cafasso wrote: >> Adding ntfscat_i command for downloading files based on their inode number. >> >> This allows the dowload of files unaccessible otherwise from a NTFS guest disk image. > The patch seems fine, but it really needs a test otherwise this > feature could silently

Adding ntfscat_i command for downloading files based on their inode number. This allows the dowload of files unaccessible otherwise from a NTFS guest disk image. --- daemon/ntfs.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ generator/actions.ml | 15 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 77 insertions(+) diff --git a/daemon/ntfs.c b/daemon/ntfs.c index 568899e..58f62fa 100644

Dear Syslinux folks, For a firmware update I am following the Gentoo Wiki [1] to create a floppy image of 20 MB, so that the vendor update utility fits. Unfortunately, FreeDOS does not load, and it seems to hang loading the FreeDOS kernel. The original FreeDOS image boots. Do you know if that issue is memdisk related? It?s started from GRUB with the commands below. linux16 /boot/memdisk

Hi, I have a working windows lvm of 1.62GB size. I just do an lvextend +1Gb on it, and then the Guest gets stuck at ''booting from harddisk'' the initial stage. Is there something more I should do? I had tried getting it working with parted etc, but it doesn''t seem to work. Is there some documentation on manipulating windows image files and the partitions inside them?

Hi all, After applying some updates onto a Debian web server, I rebooted it. However it will no longer start, and generates this error in XenCenter: 22/12/2011 09:57:45 Error: Starting VM ''Web Server'' - Using <class ''grub.GrubConf.Grub2ConfigFile''>; to parse /boot/grub/grub.cfg - WARNING:root:Unknown directive load_video - WARNING:root:Unknown directive

How can i open a virtual disk in read-write mode ? # guestmount --rw -d winxp -m /dev/sda1 /media/ # rm -f /media/pagefile.sys rm: cannot remove ?/media/pagefile.sys?: Operation not permitted # cd /media && touch file touch: cannot touch ?file?: Permission denied # cd && fusermount -u /media I've tried with guestfish also. I have compiled libguestfs with this conf:

Hi, small series with small improvements to the tests. Pino Toscano (3): tests: specify the image format when possible tests: remove remaining relative paths to binaries fish: generate test-prep.sh with generator .gitignore | 1 + align/test-virt-alignment-scan.sh | 2 +- cat/Makefile.am | 2 +- cat/test-virt-cat.sh

Hi guys, I need to move an lvm based domU from one dom0 to another dom0. How do you guys do ths? xm save/restore doesnt have the option to specify lvm target as the storage. Thanks Chris _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi All, which is the best tool for partitioning, as I forgot to bring in my copy of PartitionMagic(DOH!!) and need to resize an NTFS partition today. I'm using XP Pro at the moment. I wish to resize a 38GB partition, primary, to 20GB and use the rest for a Linux Install(CentOS 4-3). Cheers. Mark Sargent. P.S. I can't use my normal account whilst at work, so subscribed from my work

domUloader potentially makes my life a lot easier, but from experiments and looking at the code, it doesn''t seem like there is any way to pass kernel command line arguments with it. Am I just missing something? Thanks, John Byrne _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

How do I check if the proper sata drivers are being loaded? If they are not what can I do other then rebuilding the kernel? Thank you in advance, Randy _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi all I want to shrink one of my LVM based domU''s, but don''t quite know how to do it. I have searched the Wiki & HOWTO''s, and they all show you how expand / enlarge a LVM based domU, but not shrinking it. So, I stopped (destroyed) the domU, and then resized it as follows: lvresize /dev/data/cpanel1 -L10GB (It was 100GB), but when I a started it up again, I

I''m running xen on SLES10SP2. It''s been much more stable than SP1, but I still occasionally have issues. For example, one of my servers (8 CPU/32GB RAM) has five sles pv domUs and five fully virtualized windows 2k3 domUs. It had been up for almost 60 days. Yesterday afternoon one of the sles domU''s stopped responding. I went to check on it and I couldn''t using