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Customizing a Guest Operating System That Uses an LVM Other Than Microsoft LDM Fails (1488)

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Why does customization of a guest operating that uses a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) other than the Microsoft Logical Disk Manager (LDM) fail?

Solution

Customizing a guest operating system that uses a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) other than the Microsoft Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is not supported.

Customization of such a guest operating system fails because the LVM software usually encodes the volume to partition mapping in a proprietary format outside the disk's partition tables, thereby making the partitions inaccessible to the image customization software.

Windows Dynamic Disks use the Microsoft LDM, so customization of a Windows guest operating system installed on a Dynamic Disk is supported.

Typically, this problem manifests as an error message saying that the system partition could not be found despite the partition being formatted with a supported file system. This problem can occur with Windows and Linux guests. For example, customizing a Linux guest operating system that uses a LVM results in the following error message:

        CustomizeImage failed:Error: 0x800004005 source: 
        ImgCustDisk::FindLinuxSystemPartition Description: Could not
find 
        system partition -- /etc/ must reside on an Ext2/Ext3
partition.

Keywords

54922; Virtual; Center; 1488; vc130

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