Subject: Re: Is NetBSD domain0 ready for production server?
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 03/29/2005 22:47:00
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:16:38PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> I have Debian root filesystem (ext3) and swap as files
> (disk.template.bz2 and swap.template.bz2). I tried this but it won't
> work. What am I doing wrong? I've tried unknown instead of ccd but
> with the same result.
> 
> My NetBSD disklabel:
> 
> 16 partitions:
> #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  a:   8192016        63     4.2BSD   2048 16384 27560
>  b:    263088   8192079       swap
>  c: 312499937        63     unused      0     0
>  d: 312500000         0     unused      0     0
>  e:  30404483   8455167        ccd
>  f:  30404483  38859650        ccd
>  g:  30404483  69264133        ccd
>  h:  30404483  99668616        ccd
>  i:  30404483 130073099        ccd
>  j:  30404483 160477582        ccd
>  k:  30404483 190882065        ccd
>  l:  30404483 221286548        ccd
>  m:  30404483 251691031        ccd
>  n:  30404483 282095514        ccd
> 
> 
> # bunzip2 -c disk.template.bz2 > /dev/rwd0e
> # bunzip2 -c swap.template.bz2 > /dev/rwd0f
> 
> # cd /dev
> # mknod -m 660 sda1 b 8 1
> # mknod -m 660 sda2 b 8 2
> 
> # cat /xen/conf/linux1
> kernel = "/xen/kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.10-xenU"
> memory = 64
> name = "Linux1"
> cpu = -1
> disk = ['phys:/dev/wd0e,sda1,w', 'phys:/dev/wd0f,sda2,w']
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> 
> # xm create -c /xen/conf/linux1
> Using config file "/xen/conf/linux1".
> Error: Adding extent to vbd failed: device (vbd (uname phys:/dev/wd0e) 
> (dev sda1) (mode w)), error 8
> 
> From the logs:
> 
> xen.xend.XendError.XendError: Adding extent to vbd failed: device (vbd 
> (uname phys:/dev/wd0f) (dev sda2) (mode w)), error 8
> /etc/xen/scripts/: not found
> /etc/xen/scripts/: not found

Does the kernel write something on console or dmesg ?

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