[CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Mon Dec 10 22:55:13 UTC 2007


Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> 
> Johnny Tan wrote:
> > 
> > Amos Shapira wrote:
> > > When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could 
> > follow more or
> > > less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the
> > > advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup 
> > the Xen guest
> > > directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM
> > > partition as an entire disk with a partition table.
> > 
> > I might be missing something, but that link seems to talk 
> > about FAI and doesn't mention xen. I'm interested in seeing 
> > how it can install on the LVM partition but the OS doesn't 
> > see it as an entire disk with a partition table. What does 
> > "fdisk -l" show, then?
> 
> Here is a good link: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide
> 
> The Xen domU or HVM will treat the partition as a whole disk, so
> that means MBR and stuff, but you can mount it on dom0 as such:
> 
> # fdisk -l -u /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1
> 
> Disk /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1: 218.2 GB, 218233831424 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders, total 426237952 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> 
>                        Device Boot      Start         End     
>  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1p1             128   426220514   
> 213110193+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> # mount -t ntfs -o loop,offset=128 /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1 /mnt
> 
> That will create an auto-loop mount of the partition at sector
> offset 128.

Oops, offset is in bytes not sectors, so it would be offset 65536 in
my case (sector * 512).

-Ross

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