| 82.6. How to access to the VM's files | ||
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| 82.6. How to access to the VM's files | ||
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To access to the files of the virtual machine you can use the loopback device.
Create a new directory (example: mkdir /opt/domains/myvirtualmachine/loop).
Check the disk partitons using fdisk (fdisk -lu /opt/domains/myvirtualmachine/image.img).
The offset of the partition correspond to the number of offset sectors of the partition multiplied by 512 (Example: if the offset sectors are 208845, the partition offset is 208845 * 512 = 106928640).
Assign the partition to the device
/dev/loop0 with the command losetup -o
<partition-offset> /dev/loop0
<disk-image-file> (Example: losetup -o
106928640 /dev/loop0
/opt/domains/myvirtualmachine/image.img).
Mount the device into the previously created directory mount /dev/loop0 /opt/domains/myvirtualmachine/loop.
When you have finished the operations on the files, unmount the device using the command umount /opt/domains/myvirtualmachine/loop && losetup -d /dev/loop0.
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| 82.5. How to make a rtXen configuration file |  | 82.7. How to start a virtual machine |