Xen users - Aug 2007 - can you mount the partitions inside a qcow image file?

currently all my domUs have two image files that i assign in the config file as
sda1 and sda2.  sda1 is the root filesystem and sda2 is the swap partition.

i am contemplating setting up one qcow image file, assign it as sda
and creating two partitions inside it for sda1 and sda2.

i was wondering if it would be possible to mount the sda1 inside the qcow image
from the dom0?

TIA,
Tomoki

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> currently all my domUs have two image files that i assign in the config
> file as sda1 and sda2.  sda1 is the root filesystem and sda2 is the swap
> partition.
>
> i am contemplating setting up one qcow image file, assign it as sda
> and creating two partitions inside it for sda1 and sda2.
>
> i was wondering if it would be possible to mount the sda1 inside the qcow
> image from the dom0?
You could possibly "xm block-attach" the qcow device to dom0 as, say,
xvda and
then mount it.  That might have some kind of potential deadlock conditions 
which could lock up dom0; although I imagine you might get away with it if 
you just want to have a quick poke in the image.  Perhaps mounting it 
read-only would avoid this problem.

There''s also dm-userspace:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace

This is capable of mapping qcow images as normal Linux devicemapper volumes.  
I don''t know how stable it is but it''s a more Linux-specific
solution to the
problem.  Maybe it''s worth a try.

Cheers,
Mark

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