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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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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