Subject: Re: Error: Error creating domain: (0, 'Error')
To: System Administrator <sysadmin@punchyouremployer.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/17/2006 12:25:24
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:25:51PM +1000, System Administrator wrote:
> Hi,
> Im running NetBSD/Xen in Dom0 and Im trying to run Ubuntu in DomU. When I run 
> xm create I get 
> 
> Error: Error creating domain: (0, 'Error')
> 
> my config file is:
> 
> kernel = "/var/images/xen/vmlinuz-2.6.16.13-xenU"

Your hypervisor is xen-3, I guess ?

> memory = 256
> name = "ubuntu606-minimal"
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:00:00:00:06, bridge=bridge0' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/dev/vnd0d,0x301,w' ]

You want either:
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vnd0d,0x301,w' ]
or
disk = [ 'file:/path/to/disk/image,0x301,w' ]

With you disk entry, the script will try to attach /dev/vnd0d to another
vnd device.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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