Subject: Re: port-xen/29775: Cannot use a vnode disk for domU
To: None <bouyer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/30/2005 16:53:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/29775; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-xen-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/29775: Cannot use a vnode disk for domU
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:52:25 +0200

 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:42:00PM +0000, juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org wrote:
 > >Description:
 > 	With -current Xen sources, I want to create a domU using
 > 	a vnode disk in a file:
 > 
 > 	$ dd if=/dev/zero of=mydisk.img bs=1k seek=20480k count=1
 > 	$ vnconfig vnd0 mydisk.img
 > 	
 > 	$ grep vnd0 /etc/xen/netbsd
 > 	disk = [ 'phy:/dev/cd0a,cd0a,r', 'phy:/dev/vnd0a,wd0d,w' ]
 > 	$
 > 
 > 	The system will crash.
 
 I reclassified this from port-xen to kern, as it's really a problem in the
 vnd driver.
 
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