Mount a Proxmox KVM raw image in an LVM over DRBD

Hardware:
2 desktop computers
Intel i3-530
4GB DDR3
1TB Hard drive

Setup:
- 2 node cluster of ProxmoxVE 2.0-35/d07f49c3(rc1)
- LVM volume group named drbd_storage created on top of a drbd block device
- Installed Ubuntu Server 10.04LTS in a kvm container named ubuntu-kvm-template
- proxmox created a logical volume in drbd_storage named vm-108-disk-1

I want to mount the disk so that I can check something out. Apparently it is not that simple.

I eventually figured it out thru trial and error of suggestions across serveral sources.

losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/drbd_storage/vm-108-disk-1
fdisk -l /dev/loop0
apt-get install kpartx
kpartx -av /dev/loop0
pvscan
vgscan
lvscan
vgchange -ay
lvscan
mkdir -p /tmp/108
mount /dev/ubuntu-kvm-template/root /tmp/108
umount /mnt/108
lvchange -an /dev/ubuntu-kvm-template/*
kpartx -dv /dev/loop0
losetup -d /dev/loop0


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