Re: [ovirt-users] Mount crashed vm image.
I'm not sure there is such a document. this document might be related
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/DetailedFloatingDisk
You just need to do the following:
Virtual Machines Main tab -> pick the VM -> Disks sub tab -< Pick the disk ->
Press remove
At that point you will be asked if you are sure, pick OK and be sure that Remove
permanently is *not* picked
After doing that this disk should be floating, means no VMs are using it.
Then go to the new VM that you created -> go to its disks sub tab -> press the
"Add" button
in the dialog pick "Attach Disk", adn choose the disk you have just removed.
Tell me if you encounter any problems in the way
Regards,
Maor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Pasley" <grant(a)xtranet.com.au>
To: "Maor Lipchuk" <mlipchuk(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 7:04:08 AM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Mount crashed vm image.
thank you maor for your feedback,
i will most certainly try your suggestion wrt attaching disk to another
vm, i have googled a bit though on the process to do this and don't seem
to be having much success.
does anyone know where i can find the documentation for this process?
unfortunately i did not get around to making a snapshot before the
system crashed, so my only hope of retrieving the
data is to attach and access the image from another vm.
thanks,
grant.
On 8/12/2014 10:26 AM, Maor Lipchuk wrote:
See my comments inline
Regards,
Maor
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Pasley" <grant(a)xtranet.com.au>
> To: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 7:35:59 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Mount crashed vm image.
>
> Hi all
>
> i migrated a win 2008 server image from kvm to ovirt about a month back,
> it has been running fine until yesterday when is crashed and wouldn't
> restart.
Did you created snapshots which you can recover from?
> i have tried booting from cd image and repairing the image and tried redoing the
boot
> sectors but nothing seems to be working at this stage. my question is
> can i somehow mount
> this image as a partition or is there any other way to access the data
> on the image without the image being up and running so that i can
> retrieve the data on it?
> i have installed a new windows vm and re-installed the required apps,
> but need to get the user data from the crashed image now?
You can try to detach the disk from the VM and attach it to another VM.
> rgds,
>
> grant.
>
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