[virt-tools-list] restoring backup from an LVM Guest OS on KVM Lucid

Tapas Mishra mightydreams at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 08:53:08 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:
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>
> Actually it was done by the guest.  The guest saw the host LV as a
> big, empty hard disk, and it put its own partitions, filesystems and
> so on in there.
>
> From the point of view of the host however these are just big blocks
> of binary data.
>
> What you need to deal with disk images is libguestfs:
>
> http://libguestfs.org/
>
> Rich.
>
>
This was great information this will also help me.
Thanks.
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