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Re: [Xen-devel] Newbie question: "error creating domain: vbd: segment no

To: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Newbie question: "error creating domain: vbd: segment not found"
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:24:59 -0600
Cc: Quinton Hoole <quinton@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Mark Williamson'" <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "'Jan Kundrát'" <jan.kundrat@xxxxxx>
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I've seen this problem occur before when I destroy a domain through a
non-xm tool (sending control messages myself).  I think it's some sort
of dead-lock but I cannot reproduce it reliably.

Rebooting always fixes the problem for me.

Regards,

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:55, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Marvellous!  Fixed.
> 
> So the commands I showed just worked but the file: uname didn't?  You didn't 
> have to install any packages to make it work?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> > Thanks
> >
> > Q
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> >
> > Of Mark Williamson
> >
> > > Sent: 28 January 2005 18:12
> > > To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Quinton Hoole; 'Jan Kundrát'
> > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Newbie question: "error creating domain: vbd:
> >
> > segment not found"
> >
> > > > Thanks, but I'm using the standard XenLinux distribution
> > > > (vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0) which I downloaded from the Xen downloads page
> >
> > a
> >
> > > > few weeks back.  Surely this has the required loop device support?
> > >
> > > Can you check that you have the losetup command available on your
> >
> > system and
> >
> > > that it works OK?
> > >
> > > Try:
> > > losetup /dev/loop0 /home/quintonh/Downloads/xen/ttylinux-xen
> > >
> > > And then change the VBD to refer to 'phy:/dev/loop0' instead of
> >
> > 'file:...'.
> >
> > > (assuming that works, you can remove the loop mapping after stopping
> >
> > the
> >
> > > domain using 'losetup -d /dev/loop0)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
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