Sometimes we would like to access directly to the data of a XEN virtual machine just mounting the volume that act as physical device in the virtual machine, instead of booting it with a recovery cd, like in case of a faulty change in a configuration file inside the VM.
Be careful!, this must be run stopping first the virtual machine.
Let's start checking the name of the physical volume containing a linux virtual machine inside (it works with windows data, but check NTFS support in XEN first).
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