[ovirt-users] Mount crashed vm image.

[Prasad Mukhedkar]

On 08/12/2014 01:56 PM, Maor Lipchuk wrote:
> 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.

First check the image integrity by running "qemu-img check <image_path>" 
command
against it. "qemu-img" also has option to correct the corruption if 
there is any.

You can use "*libguestfs"* to access data from virtual machine (VM) disk 
images.
for more information visit: http://libguestfs.org/

Thanks,
Prasad Mukhedkar
>> rgds,
>>
>> grant.
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