Re: Hotplug scripts not working.

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

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 05:26:34PM +0200, Goran wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've created following config file for a virtual machine:
> 
> # cat /usr/pkg/etc/xen/trial.hvm
> kernel          = "/usr/pkg/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> builder         = 'hvm'
> memory          = 128
> name            = "trial"
> device_model    = '/usr/pkg/libexec/qemu-dm'
> vif             = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=bridge0' ]
> disk            = [ 'file=/var/xen/trial.img,ioemu:hda,w',
>                     'file=/var/xen/ubuntu.iso,ioemu:hdd:cdrom,r' ]
> boot            = 'd'
> 
> when starting the machine I got:
> 
> # xm create trial.hvm
> Using config file "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/trial.hvm".
> /usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/xmllib.py:9: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib
> module is obsolete.  Use xml.sax instead.
>   warnings.warn("The xmllib module is obsolete.  Use xml.sax instead.",
> DeprecationWarning)
> Error: Device 768 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not
> working.


that would be hda, so /var/xen/trial.img. Does this file exists ?

> 
> What are the hotplug scripts? Are they "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/scripts/*"?

yes.

> And
> why they don't work?

check that xenbackendd is running. If it is, check the content of
/var/log/xenbackendd.log (this is where the stderr of the hotplug scripts
is redirected). Also check dmesg for possible error messages from the
kernel.

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