Re: manual setup of DOMU

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

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 04:43:35PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> On 06/25/15 09:10, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 04:24:38PM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
> >> Reference: DOMU is NetBSD/amd64 7.99.18 (201505311600Z) with xen 4.2.3.
> >>
> >> I am trying to set up a file-backed DOMU manually from the distribution sets.  I thought the procedure was to do the following:
> >>
> >> - create a file of appropriate size with dd
> > 
> > You didn't create a sparse file, did you ?
> 
> AFAIK sparse files should work; that's what my local setup is running
> anyway and it does work.
> 
> I have issues with QCOW2 images though (xenkernel45-4.5.0nb5,
> xentools45-4.5.0nb4), they just won't boot, even though they should be
> supported.
> 
> I also have issues with xl intermittently using two vnd(4) devices
> instead of one when starting VMs (with "xl create"). Sometimes it spits
> errors ("Device busy" IIRC) or sometimes not even. I can then run
> "vnconfig -u" on one of the devices.

Do you have xenbackendd running, while run_hotplug_scripts=1 is set in
xl.conf ?

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