[ovirt-users] Mount crashed vm image.

[Maor Lipchuk]

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 at xtranet.com.au>
To: "Maor Lipchuk" <mlipchuk at redhat.com>
Cc: users at 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 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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