Hi Fabian, --On 7. August 2008 16:22:36 +0200 Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote: > Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > <snip>- 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? >> >> > That's why kpartx (for lvm) and lomount exist ;-) > Don't forget after you've used kpartx -a to use lvscan to discover your > lv and vgchange ... - snip - I had hoped for some other way because there is an open bug in kpartx on recent CentOS which leads to > failed to stat() /var/lib/xen/images/BaseCentos.img Seems to work only with rather small img files. Do you have any other idea? Dirk