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

[Max León <mleon%wirewatchers.com@localhost>]

Well it was that simple, I thought about that but I rather don't mess up my
box without being sure.

THANK a lot guys

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Stephen Borrill
<netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --
> Stephen