Re: Is there a way to increase the number of the vnd devices?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Max León wrote:
> I have Xen running on a quad core, but I'm able only to bring up 3 domU and
> obviously the dom0.
> When I try to load up another VM I get this error:
>
> root@core:>#xm create /home/vms/run/web-server/xen.cfg
> Using config file "/home/vms/run/web-server/xen.cfg".
>
>
> Error: Device 1 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.
>
> I google a bit and the VBDs are tied to the VNDs, please correct me if I'm
> wrong.  If I'm not I should be able to load more devices (virtual disks) by
> increasing the VNDs on the host.

Try this:

cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV vnd4 vnd5 vnd6 vnd7 vnd8 vnd9 vnd10 vnd11


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Stephen