Re: HVM disc corruption (was Re: Xen won't start its device backend?)

[neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost (Martin Neitzel)]

Hi Reinoud,

> It just won't start! I get:
>
> # xl create netbsd-hvm 
> Parsing config from netbsd-hvm
> libxl: error: libxl_device.c:266:libxl__device_disk_set_backend: Disk vdev=hda
> phys path is not a block dev or file: /dev/rwd1d
> [...]
> this is with:
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/rwd1d,ioemu:hda,rw' ]

at the risk of stating the obvious:  *r*wd1d is indeed not the block-buffered
but the character device.  Have you tried turning it off and on again, using
"phy:/dev/wd1d" instead?

								Martin