[ovirt-users] Mount crashed vm image.

[Maor Lipchuk]

See my comments inline

Regards,
Maor

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Pasley" <grant at xtranet.com.au>
> To: users at 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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