Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:00:26 +0100 | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | Subject | Re: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file |
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:48:40AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Luke> that loopback filesystems cannot be presented as block devices > Luke> by the linux kernel (with no involvement of xen) seems to be a > Luke> curious omission. > > But they can! But a loopback device can't be partitioned. So do it > one partition at a time.
ian and mark kindly responded pointing out some programs which make that possible.
i liked the LVM one best.
> You'll probably only have a few real filesystems on the disk image > anyway.
hi peter, thank you for responding.
see http://hands.com/d-i, searching for "xen0".
the key is to be able to test-run debian installations in a xen guest domain (with absolute minimal changes to the packages or the debian boot installs).
and of course a debian install expects to see a hard drive, which it expects to be able to partition - so it is given one.
l.
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