Hi Folks, I search for a way to mount the .img files virt-install creates for Xen VMs. Using fdisk -lu I found it contains to 2 partitions: > # fdisk -lu /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img > last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 81ed > Sie müssen angeben Zylinder. > Sie können dies im Zusatzfunktionsmenü tun. > > Platte /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img: 0 MByte, 0 Byte > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, zusammen 0 Sektoren > Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes > > Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System > /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux > /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img2 208845 8177084 3984120 8e Linux LVM And I can mount the first partition with no problem using the offset (start) from the partition table: > mount -o loop,offset=$((63*512) /PATH/TO/IMAGE.img /MOUNTPOINT But I cannot mount the second partition using the offset of it: > mount -o loop,offset=$((208845*512)) /PATH/TO/IMAGE.img /MOUNTPOINT > mount: you have to specify the file system type Even using ext3, ext2 does not work. I do not think the offset is incorrect - I venture it is because the second partition is LVM (8e). Did anybody out there succeed in mounting an LVM partition out of an image file? Any hint or help is appreciated. Dirk