Re: Problem with Xen domU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:07:51PM -0600, Max León wrote:
> Hello,
> I know what you are going to tell me, this is for the Xen list and not for
> NetBSD.
> 
> Well, it very well might but the problem I'm having is with a NetBSD dom0
> and a CentOS 5 domU that I don't have on a CentOS 5 dom0 with a CentOS domU
> 
> It should be quite straight forward, the problem is my VM ran out of space
> so I want to attach another virtual device to expand the LVM.
> This is the procedure I followed:
> Create the virtual drive:  dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/path/to/vm/folder/newdrive.img bs=1025k seek=25600 count=1

use:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/vm/folder/newdrive.img bs=1025k count=25601

The command you used creates a sparse file, and vnd(4) (the device driver
used by NetBSD to attach a backend block device to a file) didn't
support sparse files until recently.

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