<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks Allen! That lvmdiskscan is super-handy. I had totally forgotten about that.</span></font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don't have any Windows boxes handy so I haven't been using XenCenter for at least a year. Some stuff I do with the xe command line tool but I also use Xen Orchestra. It's actually pretty easy to run from Docker. I used to use jpoa/xen-orchestra, but it doesn't seem to be working for the latest version. If you want to give it a try, I'm now using this one:</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">https://hub.docker.com/r/yobasystems/alpine-xen-orchestra/</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It does most of the stuff XenCenter does or at least my basic needs, and with no Windows OS needed.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Scott</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><b>From: </b>"Allen Beddingfield" <allen@ua.edu><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:14:57 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Xen Server adding a virtual disk to a VM<br><br>If you are talking about inside of a Linux VM, "lvmdiskscan" will usually show you all block devices in a clean list. Otherwise, there is always "fdisk -l". If you are talking about a disk exposed to XenServer itself, it is easiest to turn that into a storage repo in the XenCenter gui.<br><br>--<br>Allen Beddingfield<br>Systems Engineer<br>Office of Information Technology<br>The University of Alabama<br>Office 205-348-2251<br>allen@ua.edu<br><br>On 10/13/16, 3:09 PM, "ale-bounces@ale.org on behalf of Scott Plante" <ale-bounces@ale.org on behalf of splante@insightsys.com> wrote:<br><br> <br> Hi, I actually know how to add a virtual disk to a VM, but once it's added, how are you supposed to know the device name so you can partition, create a filesystem, and mount it?<br> <br> <br> I usually do this guessing-game where I do "ls /dev/xvd*" and "mount|grep xvd" and try to find what's missing, but this doesn't seem like the best way. Can you find out somehow from the xe command?<br> <br> <br> Scott<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>