Hi Kai,
--On 7. August 2008 20:31:22 +0200 Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:46:47 +0200:
Do you have any other idea?
Do you want to regularly access it that way or do you just need to access the files onetime? I do not like this xvda stuff at all. So I created a basic setup with virt-install
You are talking about a basic vm installation to a partition instead of an image file?
and copied all content off (I don't know what I used, I assume cp or rsync or so). I used these files for a new VM based on ext3 formatted disks (you can either use files or LV). Can be done within 15 minutes or so. I tweaked that a bit to my liking and now use it as a template for new VMs. As the disks are ext3 I can now easily access the drives by mounting that LV.
I should have done that. I always did it when I compiled xen on my own using Debian. Now I tried to use the easy way the RedHat tools suggest, but more and more I come to regret it. If they work at all you one way or the other do not like the outcome.
Dirk