Re: rc.d script for starting Xen domains

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

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 06:20:13PM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> I've attached the rc.d script that I use to automatically start and
> shutdown Xen unpriviliged domains.  The following variables may be
> set in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> xendomains      This required variable is a whitespace-separated list
>               of Xen domains to start/stop, e.g.
> 
>                       xendomains="dom1 dom2 dom3"
> 
> xendomains_cfg  This optional variable is a format string that represents
>               the path to the configuration file for domains.  "%s"
>               in the format string is substituted with the name of
>               the domain, e.g. xendomains_cfg="/xen/%s/xen.conf".
>               The default is "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/%s".
> 
> The "xendomains_cfg" shouldn't need to be set if you follow the
> convention used by the Xen how-to guide of naming the config files
> stored in /usr/pkg/etc/xen after the name of the domain.

Hi,
this is nice. Do you have an idea on how to deal with file-backed domains ?
On my production systems I use vnd attached to files for guest domains,
and I've not found a nice scheme to deal with this yet.

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