On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:16 -0400, Alex wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a 5GB kvm image that I created some time ago, and would like to
> mount it on the host system to access it. I've located a few documents
> online for how to do this, but it doesn't seem to work properly.
> 
> Can someone direct me to information on how to mount a qcow2 image as
> a local filesystem on FC13?
> 
> I've tried to convert it to 'raw', but then when I try to mount it, I see:
> 
> # file systmp-kvm.*
> systmp-kvm.img: Qemu Image, Format: Qcow , Version: 2
> systmp-kvm.raw: x86 boot sector, LInux i386 boot LOader; partition 1:
> ID=0x83, active, starthead 0, startsector 1, 48194 sectors; partition
> 2: ID=0x85, starthead 0, startsector 48195, 83827170 sectors, code
> offset 0xeb
> 
> # sfdisk -l systmp-kvm.raw
> Disk systmp-kvm.raw: cannot get geometry
> 
> Disk systmp-kvm.raw: 5221 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> systmp-kvm.raw1   *      0+      2       3-     24097   83  Linux
> systmp-kvm.raw2          3    5220    5218   41913585   85  Linux extended
> systmp-kvm.raw3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> systmp-kvm.raw4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> systmp-kvm.raw5          3+   5102    5100-  40965749+  83  Linux
> systmp-kvm.raw6       5103+   5220     118-    947834+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> 
> # mount -o loop,offset=$((63*1024)) systmp-kvm.raw /mnt/newimage/
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> Ideas greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Alex


Did you try http://equivocation.org/node/107 ?

HTH,


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