Subject: Re: More than 16 partitions in disklabel
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 03/30/2005 19:16:37
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:05:17PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> I'd like to have 10 virtual machines (=20 entries for / and swap in the
> disklabel in addition to a,b,c and d) running with NetBSD/xen domain0.
> As far as I understand NetBSD only supports 16 entries per disk. How can
> I get more disklabel entries?
> 
> I'm aware of vnconfig but it has currently problems with xen. Any other
> options?

I would use a single-drive ccd for this. You allocate one partition to a ccd,
and you can sub-partition it 15 times.

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