Xen users - Dec 2005 - xen3.0 and suse10.0 fstab

i followed directions in the manual @ 37.2:

mount -o loop /var/tmp/guest1 /var/tmp/dirinstall

and get an error that says loop not recognized and fstab error.

may i have some help with this one?

also i find it strange that Novell-Suse does not have a mailing list for
Xen.
any comments?

Merry Christmas to all........Peace.............ed

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Ed

On Monday 26 December 2005 11:56, xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com
wrote:
> mount -o loop /var/tmp/guest1 /var/tmp/dirinstall
>
> and get an error that says loop not recognized and fstab error.
>
> may i have some help with this one?
Should''nt you by mounting a loopback device ? (as oppose to a directory
/
file).
i.e. something like
mount -o loop /dev/loop4 /var/tmp/dirinstall 

Interested to hear how you get on - I had 
Xen 3.0 running on SuSE 10 two weeks ago with a
domain1 and domain2. I will be reconfiguring my home office network
shortly and moving several old servers to run in VMs on one box.

Peter

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on Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:02:46PM +0000, Peter Hollands
(peter.hollands@dale.co.uk) wrote:
> Ed
> 
> On Monday 26 December 2005 11:56, xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com
wrote:
> > mount -o loop /var/tmp/guest1 /var/tmp/dirinstall
> >
> > and get an error that says loop not recognized and fstab error.
> >
> > may i have some help with this one?
> 
> Should''nt you by mounting a loopback device ? (as oppose to a
directory /
> file).
> i.e. something like
> mount -o loop /dev/loop4 /var/tmp/dirinstall 
That''s typical if you''ve used losetup to configure a loopback
device,
but the syntax OP suggests should work.  It''s possible that adding a
filesystem spec might help, though most ''mount''s will
autodetect a
recognized FS.  Might also help to ensure that the ''loop''
module is
loaded:

   modprobe loop && mount -o loop -t <filesystem> <image>
<mountpoint>


Alternatively, losetup should work, or fail similarly (e.g.:  if
there''s
no loopback module loaded).  Make sure you''re specifying an unused loop
device:

    /sbin/losetup /dev/loop2 <imagefile>
    mount -t <filesystem> /dev/loop2 <mountpoint>


Cheers.

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